La Scala’s older singers don’t go off into the sunset, they come to Casa Verdi, the rest home for those who can no longer hit the high notes. – Los Angeles Times
Tag: 09.15.99
Why Johnny can’t read?
The Washington Post‘s Jonathan Yardley says that modern school reading lists are largely devoid of literary merit. – Washington Post
BOOKS IN PRINT
A computerized analysis of the 18 million books in the Library of Congress (the world’s largest library) shows there are nearly twice as many books about Christ (17,239) as about his nearest challenger, William Shakespeare, and four times as many as about Lenin, who occupies third place on the list, with 4,492. – Sydney Morning Herald
Arts Education and Movies
A San Francisco supervisor has floated an idea to tax movies and popular entertainment as a way to fund school arts education. KRON-4, San Francisco
Giant screens/big size dilemma
The phenomenal commercial success of last year’s Everest movie has the giant screen industry rethinking its fare. New York Times
WHO CHOOSES ART
Two star curators sit down with FEED Magazine to talk about the life of the peripatetic international curator and how the profession is changing. Feed Magazine
CULTURE CLASH
Berlin’s Reischstag as remodelled by Sir Norman Foster, is more Blues Brothers than Beethoven. For Germany’s political workers, moving the government from Bonn to Berlin means a change of style. Financial Times