Some 3000 artifacts stolen from Iraq’s National Museum have been returned. “More than 1,700 items were returned in an amnesty with 900 seized in raids and at checkpoints, airports and borders. Another 750 were recovered from four different countries.” About 10,000 objects are still missing.
Tag: 09.10.03
Dance Among The Audience
Many German critics consider Sasha Waltz the “most significant German modern-dance choreographer to emerge in the generation after Pina Bausch.” Her new piece involves dancers and audience walking through the performance space. “Twenty dancers and 10 musicians will move within many rooms as well as pose in boxes resembling display cases or cupboards, as 200 audience members also wander through the eccentric theater.”
Martin Amis – Peace In The Storm
Martin Amis has a new book out and it’s had some critical drubbing. “After a going-over like this it wouldn’t be such a surprise if I were to report that Amis was a broken man: shoulders stooped; grey skin; eyes empty. Actually, he looks in terrific shape. At 54, his slicked-back hair may be of a colour seldom seen on nature’s paint chart, but he’s tanned, relaxed, good-humoured – and thinner than before.”
Defending The Vision
Daniel Libeskind is fighting for his ideas at the World Trade Center site. “The revisions. The redesigning. The new studies. The jockeying. Not just an architect, Libeskind has emerged as a tough defender of his vision, amid the high stakes tug of war that threatens to pick his design apart. Sometimes he wins. Sometimes he loses. And the battle is far from over. “