“‘Our hope,’ Eggers notes, ‘is that readers will say, “I forgot all these things that newsprint can do.” I think it’s life-affirming when you say, “Let’s just write it at the length it needs to be and not keep shrinking everything.” ‘ Of course, it’s easy to make such an argument when you’re not dealing with the issues facing the commercial press.”
Tag: 12.08.09
I.M. Pei’s National Gallery Building To Get $85M Facelift
“To date, the displacement of some 400 of the East Building’s 16,200 [2-by-5, 438-pound marble] exterior panels–about 2.5% of the total–has been observed.” But “National Gallery officials decided in 2008 to reinstall all of the panels” on Pei’s 1978 addition.
Judge: File-Sharing Student Free To Promote Illegal Activity
“US District Court Judge Nancy Gertner granted yesterday a request by [record] companies that she order Joel Tenenbaum to destroy the 30 songs that a federal jury found he downloaded and to not commit further copyright infringement. But she rebuffed their request to bar him from encouraging others to break the law.”
Bankrupt Alitalia To Auction First-Class Cabin Art
“Alitalia collected Italian modern art between the 1950s and the 1960s to generate publicity for home-grown artists such as Lucio Fontana, known for his slashes on the canvas, and the Futurist movement, which began in Italy in the early 20th century.”
Investments Down 17.6%, MoMA Freezes Pay, Cuts Benefits
“MoMA’s cash and investments declined to $610 million from $788 million in the year that ended in June,” but even so, it “has avoided firing staffers to offset budget squeezes.”
DC Gay Bookstore Lambda Rising Will Set
“Deacon Maccubbin, Lambda Rising’s founder, said that he has accomplished all he had intended when he opened the gay-oriented bookstore in 1974 and that ‘it’s time to move on.'” His goal, he said, had been “to prove that there was a market for bookstores in the country to begin stocking gay and lesbian books.”
High-Priced British Import Does Well For US Booksellers
Independents that “import an eagerly awaited book from Britain several months before its release in the United States and then jack up the price” are finding success. The book, Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” “tied for No. 5 on the best-seller list of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association in the United States in October.”
This Year’s Turner Shocker Is The Artist’s Subtlety
“Richard Wright’s shimmering wall painting, a luminous expanse of intricately patterned gold-leaf that seems, as you enter the exhibition’s second gallery, almost to float upon its far wall, is the type of artwork that even a traditionalist can admire.”
Foundation Launches $100K Prize For Artists Under 35
“The award, the Future Generation Art Prize, will be given every two years” by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation “and is open to any young artist who applies online. About 100 professionals will also be asked to nominate candidates they think are producing exceptional work.”