“The Arizona Project tells the stories of former Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, as well as those of more than 30 women with relationships to the American judicial system, including prison system employees, incarcerated women, lawyers, and activists.”
Tag: 10.08.08
What We Write About When We Write About Sports
A new festival and a book award are seeking out the real literary merit in sports journalism.
As Columbus Symphony’s Situation Settles, Money Starts to Flow
“The resolution of a months-long contract dispute at the Columbus Symphony Orchestra has prompted the Greater Columbus Arts Council to unlock more than $180,000 in operating support.”
Iraq Regains Some Treasures
“Violence has fallen across Iraq in recent months and artifacts to the country’s National Museum are trickling back — about 6,000 have been returned of the 15,000 or so that went missing in the chaos that erupted following the U.S. invasion in 2003. But Iraqi authorities are taking no chances, and will not re-open the museum until security is assured.”
Rebirthing A Theater, Part XXXVI
It’s been ten years since Minneapolis’s decrepit Shubert Theatre was moved to a new location and slated for renovation as a major regional dance hub. But the project has repeatedly fallen short of funding targets and the renovation has never begun. Now, a new $1.5m challenge grant offers new hope, but the Shubert must raise an additional $6.5m to get the money.
Taymor’s Spider-Man Budget Could Hit $40m
The new Broadway production of Spider-Man, directed by Julie Taymor, is set to become the most expensive show in history, at $35m to $40m. “If – and it’s a big “if” where Julie The Lion Taymor is concerned – they do bring it in for $35 million, Spider-Man, with a weekly running cost of $1 million, will have to run about 8,000 years in a Broadway theater just to break even.”
Canada’s Leaders On The Arts, Line By Line
Canada’s federal election is coming up next week, and one of Toronto’s dailies is running a special series assessing each party on its commitment to arts and culture. Not surprisingly, the ruling Conservatives, who have slashed $45m from arts budgets over the last two years, come off looking none too good. The Liberals, meanwhile, talk a good game, but would they deliver on their promises?
Confronting Wall Street With Art
Everyone’s angry about the Wall Street collapse and bailout, but what can someone in the arts do about it, really? “A full-time artist based in New York, [Laura] Gilbert used a computer and her drawing skills to create the ‘The Zero Dollar,’ a slightly shrunken version of the greenback. Yesterday, she headed to Wall Street, hoping to find the masters of finance who have just body-slammed our economy and, as she put it, ‘confront them with my art.'”
Giving History Some Pop Flavor
She’s hardly a traditional historian, but author Sarah Vowell has connected with a wide variety of readers with her snarky, sweet books on American history. She “has never seen any reason why an interest in history should preclude an interest in popular culture… In a way, she makes you wonder about the rest of them, the historians who would never dream of making a pop-culture analogy.”
Italy Defends Itself In An Art Show
“An exhibition celebrating a century-old piece of legislation may not seem an obvious crowd pleaser. But for the curators, it’s a way of arguing that Italy’s art treasures would be vastly diminished were it not for its strict — some assert, draconian — cultural-heritage laws.”