“[The] music channel and the College Board … are joining together to stage a contest, the ‘Get Schooled College Affordability Challenge.’ In it, ‘current and aspiring college students’ are being asked to create ‘an innovative digital tool that helps more low- and middle-income students connect with money for school’.”
Tag: 09.16.10
Britain’s £50K New Music Award Goes to Recycled-Sound Organ
“A £50,000 award given to the most innovative idea for a new musical work was tonight given to an arts practice that recycles everyday noise whether it is the repetitive drone of motorway traffic or the tumbling rapids of a weir.”
Stephen Sondheim on Having a B’way Theater Named After Him
“I’m deeply embarrassed. Thrilled, but deeply embarrassed. … Partly because I’ve always hated my last name. It just doesn’t sing.“
Threadneedle Prize Goes to a Painting About a Zaha Hadid Building
“A £25,000 visual arts prize rewarding the best in a genre that has been slightly overlooked in recent years – figurative art” went to Patricia Cain for “Building the Riverside Museum, a pastel work exploring the construction of the new Zaha Hadid-designed museum on the site of a former Clyde shipbuilding yard” in Glasgow.
The Case of the Missing Corot: It Was in the Bushes. (Seriously.)
When Corot’s Portrait of a Girl disappeared this past summer, “Carl Haggerty claimed he got drunk and lost it after showing it to a prospective buyer.” The entire world said, Yeah, right; lawsuits were filed; criminal investigations began. It turns out Haggerty was telling the truth.
Oprah Picking Franzen For Final Book Club (All Is Forgiven)
Nine years after picking Franzen’s “The Corrections” for her book club and then canceling his appearance on her show after he expressed ambivalence over her endorsement, Winfrey has chosen his new novel, “Freedom,” according to three booksellers.
King Kong Musical To Hit Broadway In 2013?
Producers are hoping their still-unfinished production of the classic ape story can find a theater on the Great White Way as early as 2013.
Why It’s Hard Losing A Favorite TV Series
“There’s no genre quite like episodic television. And no connection quite like the link between us and a show we’ve loved and lost. That’s because a TV series creates an ongoing and hauntingly plausible fictional world. It entices us to make a major emotional investment, it gradually and inexorably draws us in deeper and deeper, episode after episode — and then it turns around and dumps us, swiftly and coldly, with no right of appeal.”
Oprah To Make Nice With Jonathan Franzen?
“Word is that Oprah Winfrey has buried the hatchet with the celebrated novelist and that Franzen’s newest book, “Freedom,” will be the final selection for Winfrey’s famous book club, due to be announced tomorrow.”
Louvre Agrees To Chemical Analysis Of “Mona Lisa”
“Notoriously nervous to clean its most famous Leonardo, the Louvre has collaborated with the Labor atoire du Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France and the European Synch rotron Radia tion Facility to perform a quantitative chemical analysis on the Mona Lisa, 1503-06, and the faces of seven other works by the artist.”