Yes, Antoni Gaudi’s mad, monumental church has been under construction for 125 years. But “250 craftsmen have been hurrying to get the central nave finished in time for the visit next weekend by Pope Benedict XVI, who will consecrate the church as a Basilica.”
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Royal NZ Ballet Lands ‘Rock Star’ Ethan Stiefel as AD
“Two of the biggest names in the dance world are moving to Wellington in an unprecedented coup by the Royal New Zealand Ballet. American dancer Ethan Stiefel will become the company’s next artistic director,” and his partner, “red-headed vixen” Gillian Murphy, will dance with the company.
Abbey Theatre Lost 1.8M Euros in 2009
“A major redundancy programme at one of the country’s premier cultural venues last year resulted in the Abbey Theatre recording losses of €1.8m.”
Rene Pape Quits La Scala’s Opening Night ‘To Take a Break’
Superstar bass René Pape, who was scheduled to sing Wotan in the new production of Wagner’s Die Walküre that opens La Scala’s season next month, has withdrawn from the production. His stated reason: “to take a break from rehearsals and performances.”
How Do You Archive Artists’ Digital Work?
“There’s two sorts of problems. First of all, the media they are on, which could be tapes or old floppy disks, eight-inch floppy disks – haven’t seen a lot of those lately – deteriorate over time, and the other problem was that they become obsolete.”
Chicago Public Votes Its Winning Artist
“Art Loop Open, the city’s first public voting contest, is over, and there is a winner: John Dempsey, whose painting — “The Great American Landscape” — has earned the local artist $25,000.”
Roger Ebert: Why I Hate Top Ten Lists
“Every film critic I know loathes making lists. Most of us make an annual Year’s Best Films List, because that’s our equivalent of signing the Hippocratic Oath when you’re a doctor. The plague of lists has grown much more fearsome in the age of the Internet.”
How Ballet Became Ballet
“Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet” takes the measure of the last four centuries, showing us exactly when and why the unlikely art of ballet came into being, and how, growing more unlikely with every century, it evolved and survived.
Can Yannick Nézet-Séguin Save The Philadelphia Orchestra?
The Philadelphians are “hoping for something close to a miracle from a 35-year-old Canadian who only four years ago was scarcely known outside Montreal, where he was (and remains) music director of Orchestre Métropolitain.”
Canadian Artists Want A Share Of Resale Prices
“In 59 other countries including most of Europe, [artists] get a small percentage (from a fraction of one per cent to five per cent, depending on the sale price) of the hammer price of her resold painting thanks to a principle known as “droit de suite,” or the artist’s resale right.”