“[C]elebrating lowbrow culture was never his aim. He did not share pop art’s idolisation of advertisements and comic strips, nor the teenage dreams much of it referred to. His analysis of the methods of commercial and technical image-making was matched by his study of high art.”
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Fraud Convictions Of Livent Founders Upheld
The former business partners Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, whose Livent Inc. “produced major musicals throughout North America in the 1990s”, were ordered to begin serving their prison terms after losing their case before the Ontario Court of Appeal.
Vandal Sacks Roman Fountains
“A man accused of vandalising the Moor Fountain in Piazza Navona has been arrested by the Italian police. … The man, who subsequently attempted to damage Rome’s famous Trevi Fountain, was tracked down by local police through his distinctive footwear.”
Death Metal Patchwork Quilts
“If you were a metal-head in a past life, you probably have a collection of concert t-shirts stashed away somewhere. … A San Francisco artist who goes by the name Ben Venom has come up with an unusual use for [people’s] old heavy metal shirts – he sews them into quilts.”
Did 9/11 Change Everything? Not In The Arts
Michiko Kakutani: “Compelling as [some of the works made in response to the attacks] are, however, none were really game-changing … they neither represent a new paradigm nor suggest that the attacks were a cultural watershed. Perhaps this is because 9/11 did not really change daily life for much of the country. Perhaps it’s because our A.D.D. nation … has become increasingly inured to shock.”
Alastair Macaulay Reviews The Dance Of The Crowds At Grand Central Station
“Its main concourse is among the city’s spectacular locales, giving you the chance to observe the complex patterns made by arriving and departing passengers. … Actually, while you’re there, you can feel how every five minutes brings an alteration of tone, direction, pace.”
A Latter-Day Bayeux Tapestry?
“A stitched tapestry narrating 350 years of social history will go on display at Ely Cathedral from January next year. The idea of brilliant embroiderer Anne Wynn-Wilson following a remark from a boy in her Sunday school in 1981, the Quaker Tapestry is made up of 77 embroidered panels made by 4,000 men, women and children from all over the world.”
Remakes Of Old TV Series Usually Flop – So Why Does Hollywood Keep Trying?
Sleek, hip, and expensive relaunches of The Bionic Woman … and Knight Rider … were high-profile disappointments for NBC … [and] attempts at reviving Get Smart, Love Boat, and Melrose Place (among others) [had] tanked spectacularly before them. Given the graveyard of TV remakes haunting Hollywood, why do networks keep churning them out?”
Looking At The New September 11 Memorial
“The rebuilding effort at the World Trade Center site has been marked by enough grandstanding, backbiting and power grabs, among politicians and designers alike, to push even the most dedicated optimist toward utter cynicism. At its core, though, the memorial … has managed to preserve at least a kernel of genuine and affecting meaning.”
Preserving Rare And Ancient Alphabets In Wood
In his Endangered Alphabets Project, Vermont writer Tim Brookes carves into curly maple samples of the scripts of disappearing languages – Samaritan, Tuareg, Cherokee, and the like.