The £16 exhibition tickets are now being resold on eBay and Viagogo for up to £400.
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Google Culture: Culture Online For Everyone
The Google Cultural Institute plans to make artifacts like the scrolls — from museums, archives, universities and other collections around the world — accessible to any Internet user. ‘We’re building services and tools that help people get culture online, help people preserve it online, promote it online and eventually even create it online’.”
Paul Motian, 80, Jazz Drummer And Composer
“[One] of the most influential jazz musicians of the past 50 years,” he was a key member of the legendary combos of Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett. “But it was in the second half of his life that Mr. Motian found himself as a composer and bandleader, with work that could be counterintuitive or straightforward, runic or crowd-pleasing.”
The Loneliest American Library In The World? Baghdad
“In a nook of the library at Baghdad University, sturdy histories of the American Revolution and the Vietnam War line up next to Alexis de Tocqueville and John Updike. Paperbacks from Tom Clancy and Michael Connelly, even Judy Blume, dangle guilty pleasures. … Yet, the readers never come.”