Week
of September 10-16, 2001
1.
Special Interest
2. Dance
3. Media
4. Music
5. People
6. Publishing
7. Theatre
8. Visual Arts
9. Arts Issues
10. For Fun
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1. SPECIAL INTEREST
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IN
TIMES OF CRISIS: First we look to political leaders. Then to
spiritual leaders. Eventually though, we turn to artists to
"tell the stories of our collective experience".
"We don't know how to save lives like a doctor would, or
rescue people like a fireman would, but we do know how to
reinvigorate the human spirit. That's our job." Hartford
Courant 09/16/01
- ARTISTS
TALK ABOUT ART AND TERRORISM: Robert Brustein: "This
is a time when art is most important because it complicates
our thinking and prevents us from falling into melodramatic
actions such as those we're about to take. But this is the
time when art is made tongue-tied by authority and when it's a
very small voice among hawkish screams. ... The greatest thing
that art can do in a time of crisis is to make us aware, not
to turn us into our enemies." Boston
Globe 09/15/01
INTERPRETING
INTELLECTUAL: In our new information-on-steroids world, what
is the role of the writer, the public intellectual? Edward Said
ponders roles and responsibilities. The
Nation 09/17/01
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2. DANCE
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DANCING
IN THE LIGHT: Is dance ready to sell out in return for larger
audiences? "Contemporary gallery and museum art glows with
attention and lucre while modern dance, surviving on a diet of
instant noodles and staticky sound systems, is as pale and wan as
ever. Now that they're willing, why don't choreographers get to be
must-see sensations with big, hip followings? Why do you have to
be a 'dance lover' to love downtown modern dance?" The
New York Times 09/16/01 (one-time
registration required for access)
A
HOME OF THEIR OWN: Mark Morris's new dance home opens.
"The Morris Dance Center — perhaps the most lavish dance
center in New York, created at a cost of $6.2 million — has
become something of a symbol. For Mr. Morris and his dancers, it
is a place to call home. For other dance companies, it is a place
to envy, a place where dancers have their own cubicles, their own
physical therapists, their own mailboxes." The
New York Times 09/12/01 (one-time
registration required for access)
A
BARBIE BALLET: Barbie is sponsoring the English National
Ballet's production of Nutcracker this year. "Mattel
said the £85,000 sponsorship deal, due to be officially announced
on Tuesday, was designed to encourage young girls to become more
interested in ballet." BBC
09/10/01
NOT
DANCE ON THE CHEAP: Is Scottish National Ballet abandoning
classical dance in favor of going modern because it wants to do
dance on the cheap? Not at all, says the company's board chairman.
Our commitment to quality remains. Scotland
on Sunday 09/16/01
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3. MEDIA
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LET
THE BAD TIMES ROLL: The terrorist attacks have provoked some
changes and delays in plans for violent movies and TV shows. But
how long will that last? "Few producers, actors, or outside
observers expect Hollywood to holler 'Cut!' In fact, some believe
cinematic treatments of violent episodes such as terrorist attacks
may actually increase." It needn't be that way, of course;
it's possible
to hope for "something that travels thoughtfully beyond
the panoramic rubble, and obvious individual and collective pain,
to greater universal truths that define us as a society."
Boston Globe & Los Angeles Times
09/14/01
BBC'S
NEW CULTURE CHANNEL: The BBC is granted three new channels,
including "BBC4, a new channel devoted to culture, the arts
and ideas, and two new children’s channels." The
government's culture minister says that BBC4 is "a
distinctive, well defined service intended to create a forum for
debate." The Times (UK) 09/14/01
- Previously: ATTACKING
BBC ON ARTS: Has the BBC abdicated its responsibility for
arts programming? One critic thinks so: "Proms
attendances are going up and just try to get into the Tate
Modern on a Saturday afternoon - but that is not reflected on
BBC One." BBC 09/12/01
WATCHING
ONLINE: Downloadable movies are about to be practical. "A
new format, DivX, makes it possible to compress any film down to
about 600MB - small enough to fit on an ordinary data CD but still
high enough quality for comfortable viewing. For people with
broadband connections, watching films online is within
reach." Will movie companies be any smarter about digital
downloads than music producers were? The
Telegraph (UK) 09/11/01
VENICE
WINNER: The grand prize at this year's Venice Film Festival
has been won by an Indian film, Monsoon Wedding. "The
film, directed by Mira Nair, is a comedy about an extended family
reuniting from around the globe for an arranged marriage in
India's capital, Delhi." BBC
09/10/01
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4.
MUSIC
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IS
IT LIVE? Back in 1990 there was a scandal when it was revealed
that Milli Vanilli had lip-synced their ways though songs. Now,
pretty much any major music act faces questions about whether
or not they perform their own work. "There's not a major
band or singer out there today that people don't say it: 'Are
they really singing?' People like to dish and gossip about it
– it's like 'Are those ... [breasts] real?' " Dallas
Morning News 09/16/01
GOING
HOLLYWOOD: "The L.A. Opera has never been on the radar
internationally. For the most part, it's not even on the radar
nationally. The arrival of Kent Nagano, a young, good-looking
conductor at a company now headed by one of the best-known
musicians in the world, gives the opera its first chance to make
waves everywhere - to become a big, world-famous group, with a
distinct Southern California identity. Because the company is
young - this season is its 16th - the possibilities are still open
in a way they're not at an august house like the Metropolitan
Opera in New York or at the sturdy companies of Europe. And none
of them have the glamour of Hollywood, which the company wants to
cloak itself in." NewTimes LA
09/13/01
HOLSTERING
THE FLAGS: The last night of the Proms in London are usually a
grandly patriotic affair with patriotic music and plenty of flag
waving. In the wake of the terrorism in New York, the Prom last
night will go on, but absent the patriotic displays. "We're
not going to actively ban flags, but it's clearly inappropriate.
There's no sense of joviality or celebration that the flag waving
has become a part of." The
Guardian (UK) 09/13/01
THE
FUTURE OF RECORDING? "Since the German businessman Klaus
Heymann founded Naxos in 1987, the major labels have reacted to it
with a mixture of disdain, resentment, and efforts to buy it out
or beat it at its own game. All the while Naxos has survived and
prospered, seemingly indifferent to the threats facing the
classical recording industry — shrinking sales figures,
declining market share, abandonment of artist development and so
on." Is Naxos a model for the future? Andante
09/10/01
OPERA
ON A BUDGET: Belgium's La Monnaie Opera is an international
force. "Opera is about so many things other than just music
theatre. It embraces corporatism, elitism, snobbism and, above
all, money. Which is where La Monnaie is so remarkable. It seats a
mere 1,152 people, about half of the capacity of the Royal Opera
House. Its top price is just over £50, compared to £150 at
Covent Garden." New Statesman
09/10/01
HAVE
ORCHESTRA WILL TRAVEL: The Australian Chamber Orchestra was
once described by The London Times critic as the "best
chamber orchestra on earth." The orchestra tours more than
any other Australian arts company, and it is aggressively
promoted. It's also run up a large deficit and grappled with the
idea of merging with another organization to stabilize. But now
things seem to be looking up... Sydney
Morning Herald 09/11/01
BRITISH
BUY MUSIC: British consumers buy more recorded music per
capita than music lovers in any other country. UK residents buy an
average of four cds per year, according to a new report. Gramophone
09/07/01
MICHAEL
JACKSON RETURNS: Fans paid as much as $2,500 a ticket for
Michael Jackson's Madison Square Garden concert this weekend.
Actually, it was less concert than a contrived (and awkward)
coronation. The New York Times
09/10/01 (one-time registration
required for access)
NAPSTER
OFFERS TO PAY: In a turnaround, Napster proposes paying
recording labels for music downloaded over its service. Wired
09/09/01
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5. PEOPLE
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THE
ANONYMOUS CHAMPION: Bobby Fischer won the world chess title 30
years ago, then disappeared into obscurity. Now, a grandmaster
believes Fischer is playing chess anonymously on the internet.
"Nigel Short, Britain's most celebrated grandmaster of chess,
is convinced he has played 50 speed games of chess against Mr.
Fischer through the Internet Chess Club, a service that allows
players worldwide to play each other online."
National Post (Canada) 09/10/01
RETURNING
OSCAR: Actor Kevin Spacey was the anonymous buyer who paid
$150,000 for an Academy Award up for auction. He'll return it to
the Academy. ''I strongly feel that Academy Awards should belong
to those who have earned them - not those who simply have the
financial means to acquire them.'' Chicago
Sun-Times (AP) 09/15/01
MISSING
DIGERIDOO-ER: Australia's most famous digeridoo player is
missing. Is he dead? "His community has become caught up in a
supernatural rumour mill and both black and white spiritualists
claim to be in contact with him. David Blanasi is said to have
wandered off to collect wood to make digeridoos on August 6."
Despite an extensive search, he's still missing. The
Australian 09/11/01
ART,
DEATH AND TAXES: At the time he died in 1992, Sydney Nolan was
Australia's best-known artist. "Nolan was knighted in 1981,
but a decade later, despite his fame, his prolific output and
success at marketing his work for more than 50 years, he owed the
British tax office a considerable sum. The subsequent death duties
are believed to have increased the amount to more than $3
million." Now the remaining 95 paintings in his estate are to
be auctioned to pay taxes. The Age
(Melbourne) 09/14/01
CONLON
LEAVING PARIS: "James Conlon, chief conductor of the
Paris Opera since 1995, said he will leave his job at the end of
his contract in July 2004." Andante
(AP) 09/12/01
CRITICISM
FOR TOO MUCH AND TOO GOOD: Joyce Carol Oates has just
published her 94th book. "Her recent Oprah pick, We Were
the Mulvaneys, was the author’s first No. 1 best seller and
has sold 10 times more than any other book she’s written."
Yet she's criticized by some for her prolific output. Newsweek
09/17/01
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6.
PUBLISHING
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FRENCH
COURT RULES LES MIZ SEQUEL IS OK: "A French court
denied a request by descendants of Victor Hugo to have a newly
published sequel to Les Miserables pulled from bookstores
on the grounds that it betrayed the spirit of the 19th-century
classic. In its ruling, the Paris court said that Hugo, in his
lifetime, had not wanted his descendants to exercise control over
his literary legacy. The court cited Hugo as once saying he did
not agree with the premise that 'descendants by blood were also
the heirs of the spirit'." Nando
Times 09/12/01
HIGH
ON HIGH ART: The New Criterion is 20 years old. "It
remains one of the liveliest and most controversial cultural
journals in North America. To its many admirers, the monthly
magazine is a brave defender of the beleaguered values of high art
in a cultural environment poisoned by political correctness. To an
equally large number of detractors, The New Criterion is the dour
and dyspeptic voice of cultural reactionaries who inflexibly
reject new developments in art." National
Post (Canada) 09/13/01
BOOK
COLLECTING AND THE ART OF INTERNET: Second-hand booksellers
aren't exactly hurting these days - if - they're willing to adapt.
The internet has radically changed the way book collectors
collect. "It's close to revolutionised what we do - not
necessarily for the best." The
Age (Melbourne) 09/11/01
GIVING
IT AWAY INCREASES BOOK SALES: Most publishers are worried that
online distribution of their books will kill their sales. But one
publisher that has put everything it prints on the web finds that
sales have actually increased. Why? "From our perspective,
the Web is already the best dissemination engine ever, which has
the side benefit of providing vast new markets and audiences for
our work." Chronicle of Higher
Education 09/14/01
PLACING
PRODUCT: So why all the fuss over B-list novelist Fay Weldon's
product-placement deal in her latest book? "It's much ado
about absolutely nothing. The 'sacred name of literature' -
whatever in God's name that may be - hardly has been besmirched by
Weldon's little caper, nor has the 'freedom of the writer to do as
he pleases' been compromised. Literature is a lot bigger than all
the little people who claim to labor in its name, and it will
survive the petty transgressions of them all." Washington
Post 09/10/01
NAME
THAT CHARACTER: To raise money for a foundation that helps
provide medical care for victims of torture, a group of writers is
auctioning off literary immortality. "Writers Margaret
Atwood, Pat Barker, Ken Follett, Robert Harris, David Lodge, Ian
McEwan, Terry Pratchett and Zadie Smith have all agreed to name a
character in their forthcoming books after those prepared to pay
most for the privilege." BBC
09/10/01
COMMON
READ: With citizens of Chicago all reading the same book (To
Kill a Mockingbird) together (at least that's the claim),
other cities are trying to choose books of their own to read.
Taste being what it is, agreeing on a book isn't so easy. Toronto
Star 09/09/01
BOOK
COLLECTING AND THE ART OF INTERNET: Second-hand booksellers
aren't exactly hurting these days - if - they're willing to adapt.
The internet has radically changed the way book collectors
collect. "It's close to revolutionised what we do - not
necessarily for the best." The
Age (Melbourne) 09/11/01
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7. THEATRE
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KILLING
NY THEATRE: Broadway producers are worrying that the World
Trade Center attacks may help kill the good times Broadway has
enjoyed for the past decade. New York theatre depends heavily on
the tourist trade - that was already down this summer from last
year's record levels, and is "likely to dry up now that New
York City 'has a big bull's-eye painted on its face'." New
York Post 09/14/01
ORIGINAL
SHAKESPEARE: A rare almost-perfect first folio edition of
Shakespeare plays is about to be auctioned. "It's an awesome
thought that if this book had not been published, most of what we
know of Shakespeare would have disappeared from the world. None of
the cue copies and prompt copies survives." The
Guardian (UK) 09/11/01
NEED
FOR THE NEW: Birmingham Repertory Theatre's director recently
resigned saying he'd "run out of ideas" about how to
revitalize the theatre. Perhaps "if Birmingham has a problem,
it is that its audiences haven't been exposed to the new theatre
written over the past 10 or even 20 years." The
Guardian (UK) 09/12/01
COLLABORATIVE
STAGING: London's legendary West End is one of the world's
dramatic centers, and playwrights count themselves lucky to have
one of their works put on at one of the district's many theaters.
But a dot-com company has come up with a bizarre idea to have its
users write, as a group, the latest play to premiere at the Soho
Theatre. BBC 09/10/01
ANOTHER
MAJOR AWARD FOR ARTHUR MILLER: American playwright Arthur
Miller "is among five recipients of the Japan Art
Association's 2001 Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award,
which is intended to honor lifetime achievement in categories not
covered by the Nobel Prizes." With all his prizes and honors,
Miller, at 85, might seem like a man who has figured things out.
He says not. "I don't have any big answers offhand," he
insists. "I struggle with everything, just like everyone else
does." USAToday 09/14/01
REWRITING
A CLASSIC: Playwright David Henry Hwang's Flower Drum Song
rewrite "will likely send musical comedy purists into a
C-major fit. In Hwang's story, San Francisco's Chinatown circa
1960 is glimpsed through the prism of a Chinese opera theater
struggling with its off-night success as a Westernized nightclub,
run by the tradition-bound owner's James Dean-styled son. The
show's song list remains largely the same—A Hundred Million
Miracles, I Enjoy Being a Girl, even Chop Suey. The new
libretto removes the original's quaint arranged marriage
complications, however, in favor of a brash backstage musical
romance." Los Angeles Times
09/16/01
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8.
VISUAL ARTS
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WHY
ARCHITECTURE MATTERS : "Destroying architecture for
political reasons is nothing new. The more important and powerful
its symbolism, the higher a building is likely to rank on the
target list of a bitter foe. The reasons are always the same.
Architecture is evidence - often extraordinarily moving evidence -
of the past. Buildings - their shapes, materials, textures and
spaces - represent culture in its most persuasive physical form.
Destroy the buildings, and you rob a culture of its memory, of its
legitimacy, of its right to exist." Washington
Post 09/13/01
CARING
FOR A MONUMENT: LA's Watts Towers have "endured a litany
of indignities ranging from a 10,000-pound stress test—conducted
by supporters in 1959 to prove that it wasn't a public hazard—to
vandalism, inept restoration, political corruption, bureaucratic
indifference and natural disasters." Since 1994 the towers
have been closed after earthquake damage. But as they reopen, the
question of who will look after them remains open. Los
Angeles Times 09/16/01
OLD
TRUTHS: How did great artists create masterpieces of enduring
vitality when they were old? Mostly it was an abiding curiosity.
"This curiosity about art assumed various guises. Some
artists addressed their loss of physical prowess by changing their
medium. When painters like Degas found themselves without the
ability to masterfully wield a brush, they turned to sculpture. In
turn, the sculptor Rodin turned to drawing." Christian
Science Monitor 09/14/01
ANTI
ART-EATING: Bugs are causing so much damage of museum
collections, the British Museum is convening a major conference on
what to so about the problem. "Moths, flees, booklice,
woodlice and termites are among bugs that thrive on organic
matter. Entire objects — even entire collections — have been
lost in museums and libraries." The
Times (UK) 09/17/01
TURNING
AROUND THE V&A: The Victoria & Albert Museum has a
problem with leadership. "It recruits directors like Henry
VIII took wives. It bashes them around. Then it spits them out.
Either the curators gang up on them, or the trustees do. Somewhere
in the V&A’s seven miles of labyrinthine corridors a wicked
fairy must lurk. Not for nothing is the place known as the Violent
and Angry Museum." But the new V&A director believes he
can turn things around. The Times (UK)
09/12/01
CAN
WE AFFORD OUR MUSEUMS? Artistic quality of our museums is
increasingly measured in terms of its popularity. But "can we
maintain the daily, costly and wide-ranging operation of our
museums? Should individual items be sold off from collections to
finance operations? Should we finally consider art collections as
nothing more than a fund - a type of savings deposit - to be
activated when necessary for superficial and alluring exhibition
events?" Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung 09/12/01
VENICE
UNDERWATER: "The mean sea level in Venice is 23 cm higher
than it was a hundred years ago, partly due to subsidence, partly
due to a rise in the water level of the lagoon. By the end of this
century, due to climate change sea levels generally are expected
to rise by 20 to 60 cm." This means the city will be under
water and uninhabitable unless something is done. The
Art Newspaper 09/10/01
GETTING
BIGGER TO KEEP UP: Sotheby's moves into enormous new quarters
in London. "Millions of pounds have been spent on leasing and
altering the premises in an attempt to win back lost ground in the
middle market. Sotheby's needs to do this because it wasted time
and huge amounts of money on an ill-judged internet auctions
project, while Christie's traditional sales at its mid-market
South Kensington saleroom increased by seven per cent to £99
million last year." The Telegraph
(UK) 09/10/01
DEPARTING
DIRECTOR TAKES SHOTS: Outgoing British Museum managing
director Suzanna Taverne says the museum is in trouble and may
have to "cut opening hours, restrict access to certain
galleries and call off exhibitions because of a cash crisis."
She also said her short tenure at the museum was due in part to
outdated views by BM curators and board members about how the
museum should be run. Sunday Times
(UK) 09/09/01
REAL
FAKE/FAKE REAL: Of two Rembrandt self portraits, one was
considered authentic and the other a copy. But ten years ago, an
expert concluded that the real portrait was the copy and the copy
was real. Now they're sitting side by side in a Nuremberg museum
so the public can judge for themselves. Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung 09/10/01
TATE
WAKES: "When it opened last year, Tate Britain tried its
best not to be a great art museum. Thematic displays set aside
nearly the entire collection in favour of a thin and
unenthusiastic sample." Now the Tate has gone back to a
conventional chronological presentation and the Tate seems to have
greater confidence in its collection. The
Guardian (UK) 09/12/01
HOLBEIN
DISCOVERY: The Victoria & Albert Museum discovers it has a
Holbein it didn't know it had. "This is an extremely
important discovery in the context of the subsequent development
of the English portrait miniature. When we cleaned the picture we
realised it was of extremely fine quality." The
Telegraph (UK) 09/17/01
SINGLES
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art has
reinvented. Forget art. While "in the past the MCA has been
in the news mainly because of its hard-fought battles against
financial ruin, now it suddenly seems to have become the new hot
spot for the city's hip young singles." Sydney
Morning Herald 09/17/01
A
QUARTER-BILLION DOLLAR HEADACHE IN SEOUL: The National Museum
of Korea was designed to be the world's fifth-largest, and was
scheduled for completion next year. But, "In the wake of a
highly critical parliamentary report, NMK... is undergoing a
comprehensive review. The report... called on the government to
re-examine the entire project, stating that construction work so
far had been shoddy and calling into question hastily-made
decisions on the museum’s design and construction." The
Art Newspaper 09/13/01
ODD
TIME TO QUIT: London dealer Anthony d'Offay is one of the most
successful, unpredictable and powerful international art dealers.
"One thing no one had foreseen was that, last Tuesday, the 50
or so artists represented by his gallery - who include Howard
Hodgkin, Rachel Whiteread, Michael Craig-Martin and Ron Mueck -
would each receive a pro-forma letter, delivered by courier,
announcing their dealer's intention to shut up shop at the end of
the year." d'Offay intends to shut his four London galleries.
Financial Times 09/11/01
HOW
TO BE A STAR: How does star architect Norman Foster turn out
so many high-profile projects? It's the team, he says.
"Employing 590 people, with a turnover of £35 million, the
practice is currently working in 18 countries from its offices in
London, Berlin and Singapore." The
Telegraph 09/12/01
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9.
ISSUES
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THE
POWER OF ART TO COPE WITH GRIEF:
"From
Homer's tales of Troy to Picasso's Guernica, from
Tchaikovksy's Pathétique to Bill T. Jones's Still/Here,
from the bloody dramas of Sophocles and Shakespeare to Maya Lin's
Vietnam Memorial, artists have always combated grave tragedy with
grave beauty. Critics of The New York Times reflect on how
art in all its forms has girded us to go on grieving and
living." The
New York Times 09/13/01 (one-time
registration required for access)
POWER OF ART: The arts aren't just
events to be gone ahead with or cancelled after a tragedy. One of
the powers of great art is to try to make sense of difficult
things. Globe & Mail critics look at the power of artforms - Dance,
Music,
Visual
art, Literature,
Theatre
- to help people cope with tragedy. Globe
& Mail (Canada) 09/14/01
AH
YES, THE VISION THING: London's South bank arts center is
squalid and unworkable and needs to be rethought. Everyone agrees
on that. But numerous failed attempts to figure out what to do
have resulted in nothing. "What is at issue is not just which
architect the centre wants, but what it wants them to design, and
exactly where it wants them to build it." The
Observer (UK) 09/16/01
THE
ARTS IN SCHOOL: After years of back-to-basics programs that
decimated arts education in California schools, the arts are
making a comeback in the classroom. But even appreciating the
value of arts education, schools are having difficulty
reintroducing arts; finding qualified teachers is just one of the
problems. Los Angeles Times 09/10/01
COMBATING
BLANDNESS: "While admitting it was bland and passive
during the past decade, [Canada's] National Arts Centre has
unveiled a new plan to restore its glory days." National
Post (Canada) 09/11/01
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10. FOR FUN
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AND
YOU THINK YOU KNOW CULTURE? A Toronto design firm is looking
for employees. But first you have to pass the Bruce Mau Culture
Challenge. From the Beatles to Joseph Beuys, theosophy and the
origins of the "end of history," here's a test that will
put hair on your chest. National Post
(Canada) 09/14/01
CRITICAL
RESPONSE: Violinist and national ArtsCentre Orchestra music
director Pinchas Zukerman takes criticism personally: "If I
hear some really outlandish feedback from subscribers, I pick up
the phone and call them. I say 'What the f--- did you mean by
that?' And they go, 'Oh my God! Is that you?' And I say, 'Yeah,
it's me. What do you think I should be doing here?' And usually
they say, 'I didn't mean it like that' or 'I was
misunderstood'." Saturday Night
(Canada) 09/15/01
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