This past summer, Rutgers University announced plans to convert the Walt Whitman Arts Center, on its satellite campus in downtown Camden, into classroom space. The center’s administration promptly sued the university. “A settlement reached this month will turn the building into a hybrid classroom-theater.”
Tag: 12.25.10
The Six Biggest Flops On Broadway
“Spiderman” wouldn’t be the first, but it would be the most expensive…
Flashmob Messiah Choir Racks Up 25 Million Views On YouTube
“The 80-member Chorus Niagara showed up at the Seaway Mall in November and spontaneously serenaded surprised shoppers with a rendition of the Christmas song Hallelujah. Now, seven weeks after the video was uploaded, it has more than 25.7 million views.”
Why Is British Government Quitting Books For Kids Program?
Britain’s poet laureate has accused the government of behaving like “scrooge at his worst” after ministers decided to axe all funding for a free book scheme that benefits 3.3 million youngsters a year.
Rethinking The Concept
“In a town where various consultants will tell you what to eat, when to bend your limbs, where to put your money and, above all, how to write a screenplay, Winston J. Perez is emerging as the guru of ‘Concept Modeling.’ It is a registered service mark that refers, more or less, to a process for getting to the bottom of things.”
Is Hollywood Looking Down-Class?
“For a long time most commercial entertainments not set in the distant past or in some science-fiction superhero fantasyland have taken place in a realm of generic ease and relative affluence. Right at the moment, though, we may be feeling a little grumpy, and otherwise inoffensive movies can look more clueless than playful in their genial assumptions of material comfort and financial security.”
Collector Roy R. Neuberger, 107
“Believing that collectors should acquire art being produced in their own time and then hold on to it, giving the public access but never selling, Mr. Neuberger accumulated hundreds of paintings and sculptures by Milton Avery, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and others, becoming one of America’s leading art patrons.”