From shooting to editing to promoting, 1999 is likely to go down as the year that digital took over every aspect of the movie business. Next: goodbye celluloid. BBC
Tag: 12.19.99
BERLIN WALL FALL
Ten years ago, as East Germany was dissolving, a long section of the Berlin Wall was turned into a canvas for 114 artists from 21 countries. Now Berlin’s famous open-air art attraction is in peril, and finding someone to bail it out financially has so far turned up empty. Die Welt (Germany)
COLLECTIBLES MARKET –
– soars with the stock market. New York Times
BUILDING AS PACKAGING
“If architecture is an art – the greatest art, some have claimed – then too many buildings today look like the packing crate the art must have come in.” Boston Globe
CONCERT HALL ON THE FLY
Paul Andreu is a designer of airports. But his design for an egg-shaped performing arts complex with an opera house, concert hall and two theaters will make a distinctive mark on downtown Beijing. New York Times
“NOW” and “THEN” ART
Is it really true there’s been a cultural boom in America? Just what is doing the booming? Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
CAPPED OUT
Egyptians have decided not to place a golden cap atop the Great Pyramid as part of a grand celebration to mark the ringing in of the new millennium. The Times of India
IN SEARCH OF
Los Angeles’ Disney Concert Hall finally broke ground last week. Maybe the city has drawn closer to creating a cultural hub that works. And yet… Los Angeles Times
THE MOST POPULAR POET IN AMERICA?
His very popularity has provoked one of the odder publishing battles of recent memory. Improbably, a large commercial publisher is battling a small academic press over a literary poet. “It is an argument about money, with a distinct David-and-Goliath plot, but it is also about publishing ethics and the right of an author to determine the direction of his own career.” New York Times
LIFE AFTER MARTHA
The Martha Graham Dance Company has had a rough time since its founder died. Suddenly there was no big personality around which the universe turned, no fund-raising lucky charm. Can former Graham dancer Janet Eilber revitalize things? – Los Angeles Times