“Contemporary science — a topic that Americans supposedly find dull — is drawing substantial crowds month after month, even on topics as nerdy as gene sequencing and dark matter” at science cafes around America.
Tag: 12.16.07
Battle In Seattle – An Orchestra In Turmoil
What’s happening at the Seattle Symphony is “a cautionary tale of how the relationship between performers and a long-term leader can go awry and how, in an artistic hothouse, a tangle of emotion and politics can veer out of control and take on a life of its own.”
Basel Miami – $400 Million Of art In Four Days
“If Art Basel Miami Beach is emblematic of anything, it is the global stampede of art tourism, and the weirdness of what happens to art in that carnivalesque context of all that buying and selling.”
A Mediocre Year For New Architecture?
Was 2007 a mediocre year for new buildings? A nascent consensus in certain parts of the architecture world says so, and it’s not hard to understand why:
Colorado Springs Expands Its Museum
The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center opened a $30 million addition and renovation in August. “Rather than an attention-grabbing, signature structure, David Owen Tryba Architects of Denver, to its credit, created a largely self-effacing design that defers to the museum’s original 1936 building, one of the state’s architectural gems.”
Hollywood Writers Want Direct Negotiations
“Faced with the indefinite suspension of negotiations, the union representing striking Hollywood writers told its members Saturday it would try to deal directly with Hollywood studios and production companies, bypassing the umbrella organization that has been representing them.”
Humana Festival Chooses Its Plays
After reading hundreds of new plays, Actors Theatre of Louisville has chosen the six new full-length works it will produce for its 2008 Humana Festival of New American Plays, Feb. 24 through March 30.
Let’ All Dance Together (Virtually)
An Art Institute of Chicago student and sometimes dance instructor has posted a dance on YouTube and issued a challenge to viewers to make their own video of themselves doing the dance. “Instead of getting people together on a street, which I was trying to do, or teach some free classes, I thought, what if I posted a dance on YouTube and gave everybody a chance to connect?”
What The Top Radio Format In America?
It’s country. There are 2,054 country stations in the United States, which is up slightly from 2,049 a year earlier. News/talk stations now total 2,026, an increase of 18 from a year ago. The number of news/talk stations has increased by nearly 500 in the past 10 years.”