“The first casualty in the Penguin/Random House merger could be the Penguin Classics and Modern Classics series, and that would be a tragedy.”
Tag: 11.02.12
Google Art Project Scoops Up The Phillips Collection
Google has added new features to the Art Project, including a Hangout function that enables anyone to give virtual art tours.
MoMA Offers Some Help On Sandy-Damaged Artwork
The Museum of Modern Art is running a session today on how to save flood-damaged art, and it’s also put up resources online for the Chelsea galleries and others where art was assaulted by the hurricane’s flooding.
Don’t Trust The Mouse With Star Wars
“It wouldn’t matter to me if all six Star Wars movies got wiped off the face of the earth tomorrow. Which means that, logically speaking, it shouldn’t matter to me what Disney does with the franchise either, right? Um, yes and no.”
Minneapolis City Council: Orchestra & Musicians, Return To The Bargaining Table
“The council’s resolution also urged both sides to resume talks and stated that the city discourages the use of lockouts to settle labor disputes.”
Alarm Over Destruction Of Mecca’s Heritage Sites
“The house of the Prophet’s wife has now been turned into a toilet block and the house of one of his companions is now the site of a Hilton hotel…All of these important sites, which in other countries would be UNESCO World Heritage [sites], here they have been obliterated.”
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Cancels Concerts Through End Of The Year
“Knowing how far we are from an agreement, and in consideration of the needs of our audience and guest artists to plan ahead, we have made the decision to cancel concerts through December 31st.”
Has The Phoenix Frank Lloyd Wright House Just Been Saved?
“The coiled concrete-and-steel house built by Frank Lloyd Wright here, which had been under threat of demolition since its sale in June to a pair of luxury home developers, may have found its savior in an anonymous buyer who has agreed to pay the asking price of $2.379 million, all of it in cash.”
Was Abraham Lincoln A Depressive? (Tony Kushner Doubts It)
Says the screenwriter of Steven Spielberg’s new biopic, “I don’t understand that take on him at all. The incidences that people turn to as evidence of his depression, I think, can be interpreted in other ways. It was very hard for him to accept that he was going to assume [his historic role].”