“A new gallery of contemporary art would be built downtown, and four smaller thematic exhibition spaces would be built around Vancouver over the next 15 years.”
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Restoration Of 17th Century Painting In Texas Reveals New Characters
“The newly discovered figures had been scraped away and painted over at some point after the artist’s death.”
Google Casts Proposed German Law As Battle For Open News Online
“Google’s offensive is not surprising. If we believe the warnings of the search engine giant, at stake is nothing less than the freedom of “my” internet. We’re all part of this fight, whether we want it or not.”
Canadian Architect To Design Hong Kong’s New $350 Million Opera House
Bing Thom’s design, which uses the traditional Chinese moongate/lantern motif for the main entrance on an undulating exterior, will result in two auditoriums of 1,100 and 400 seats, an education and training centre, a 300-seat tea house plus “a generous amount of public leisure space.”
Why Have TV’s New Comedies All Flopped This Fall?
Not a single show has cracked the Nielsen Top 30.
Co-Producing (Writing) Books – Why Not?
“It happens all the time in other industries: music, television and art all make use of such collaborations, so why not books?”
A New Model For New Opera
“With opera companies taking a broader view of how to foster and present new work, young composers who are inspired to experiment with the challenging form will have more places to try it out.”
Ravi Shankar, Who Brought Indian Classical Music To The World, Dead At 92
“[He] was the Indian maestro who put the sitar on the musical map. George Harrison called him ‘the godfather of world music’ and it was Shankar’s vision that brought the sounds of the raga into western consciousness, thus bridging the gap between eastern and western music for the first time.”