“Design renderings posted on Libeskind’s website show a long sloping body and a jagged-edged lid, all streaked with crisscrossing silver lines.”
Tag: 11.13.07
WashPo Critic Tim Page Apologizes For Email
The Washington Post’s well-regarded classical music critic says he knew he had screwed up the moment he hit “send” on an email to a publicist for DC city councilman Marion Barry. “It’s the stupidest thing I’ve done in 30 years in journalism. I hope people won’t judge me on this one explosion.”
Researchers: Bad Behavior In School Not A Predictor
“An international team of researchers analyzed measures of social and intellectual development from over 16,000 children and found that disruptive or antisocial behaviors in kindergarten did not correlate with academic results at the end of elementary school.”
Christie’s Sale Comes On Strong (Does It Mean Anything?)
The financial people are watching this week’s auctions to see if the art market is slowing. “The strong prices achieved last night for everything from a striped wood barber pole ($16,250) to an early abstract painting by Willem de Kooning ($5.3 million) was a confidence builder.”
TV Writers Of The World Unite! Write A Play!
“Look on the Writers Guild of America strike not as a painful crimp in your earnings potential but as a heaven-sent opportunity to return to your first love, the theater, where the writer is still king, albeit of a relatively dinky kingdom. Fate has given you another shot at artistic redemption. Don’t let it slip away.”
Guthrie Theatre To Premiere “Little House on the Prairie” Musical
Staging the show at the Guthrie, director Fancesca Zambello said in a release issued by the theater, “allows us to fuse together an integral part of American culture with unique theater writers of today in the heartlands where the ‘Little House’ began its life.”
Opera For The Short-Attention-Span Set
Enter Piccola Lirica, which advertises itself as youth-friendly, meaning it hires fresh-faced singers and shrinks grand operas like “Tosca” from “Godfather” to “Pinocchio” length. It’s the CliffsNotes version of Puccini, fondly abridged.