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- TOP
OF 1000 YEARS: Four
American museum curators each have a go at picking their top ten artworks of
the past 1,000 years. Two of them pick Chartres as No.1.
Christian Science Monitor 05/19/00
- A
GREAT MILLENNIUM FOR COMPOSERS: So why did this big gap open between
popular and serious music? "Arguably the most important development in
music over the past 1,000 years has been the standardization of proportional
musical notation, allowing complex musical works to be passed on in a visual
form." Christian
Science Monitor 05/19/00
- AND
THE AWARD FOR MOST SPECTACULAR... New Year's show has to go to Paris'
Eiffel Tower. How'd it happen? "It took five months for a crew of 20
mountaineers and rock climbers to string the 20,000 screw-in bulbs on the
110-year-old tower and an additional month for 47 more climbers and
technicians to set 4,800 pyrotechnic launches on 80 specially created tower
decks." Philadelphia
Inquirer 01/06/00
- Y2K
BUG BUSTS: The biggest-hyped bug of the century
busts big. "With the millennium’s first day playing out as the most
over-hyped disaster since the release of “Godzilla,” the world wound up
focusing instead on what had gone right as 1999 became 2000." Variety
01/03/00
- A
BUST IN PARTYTOWN: Hollywood loves its
reputation for a good party. But Millennium Eve was a bust. Los
Angeles Times 01/03/00
- 'Chicago
Welcomes the World,' brought roughly 400 visitors from around the
globe (all expenses paid) to see how Chicago celebrates. The visitors
must have wondered if the town that gave the world Louis Armstrong and
Mahalia Jackson had forgotten how to swing." Chicago
Tribune 01/03/00
- STAY-AT-HOME
CELEBRATION: Record TV ratings in UK for New Year's Eve as many opt to watch
the new millennium begin on the tube. BBC
01/02/00
- MOVIE
WISHES FOR 2000: Hmmmn...here's a Pet Peeves rant disguised as a Top Ten
list. Los Angeles
Times 01/02/00
- LOOKING
AHEAD: London Times critics look ahead at the cultural year anticipating
the highlights.
London Sunday Times 01/02/00
- THE
TEN MOST OVERRATED IDEAS OF THE MILLENNIUM Chicago
Tribune 12/28/99
- THINK
YOU KNOW ART? MUSIC? DANCE? THEATRE? Pit your knowledge against the
millennium with this test. London
Telegraph 12/24/99
- BEST
CLASSICAL RECORDINGS OF THE 90s
London Times 12/29/99
- TURNING POINTS OF A CENTURY:
- BEST IN BOSTON:
- LONDON DECADE
- LONDON CENTURY
- 99 IN LOS ANGELES:
- 99 IN LOS ANGELES:
- 99 IN NEW YORK:
- VILLAGE VOICE CENTURY:
- SALON BEST OF 99:
- 99 IN SAN FRANCISCO:
- DECADES FROM THE BAY AREA
- 99 IN CHICAGO:
- 99 IN ST PETERSBURG FLA:
- 99 IN PITTSBURGH
- IN THE USA:
- IN THE AP:
- 99 IN LONDON:
- CENTURY IN SCOTLAND:
- MOST
IMPORTANT OF THE CENTURY: A panel of theater professionals picks their most
significant person or trend in the century just past. Backstage
12/28/99
- THE
ARTS YEAR IN AUSTRALIA The
Australian 12/24/99
- CROSSING
OVER: Five artists - choreographer Donald McKayle, visual artist Alexis
Smith, TV producer Darren Star, R.E.M singer Michael Stipe, and director Julie Taymor
- sit down to talk about art in the new century.
Los Angeles Times 11/28/99
- TOP
100: National Public Radio releases its list of the 100 most important
musical works of the 20th Century, as voted on by 14,000 NPR listeners. NPR
12/14/99
- AND THE
WINNER IS... The name of the biggest-selling American recording of the
century was revealed this week. Move over Michael Jackson...
San Francisco Examiner 12/9/99
- A
THOUSAND YEARS OF THEATER: Not much theater going on in 1000, so on to the
20th Century and highlights in show biz. Backstage
12/20/99
- PICKING THE YEAR'S TOP MOVIES: Chicago
Tribune's Mark Caro, Chicago
Tribune's Michael Wilmington, Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel 12/19/99
- TOP
TEN: One critic's nomination for the ten best classical recordings of 1999. Chicago
Tribune 12/5/99
- MODERN
DANCE: Tracing movement across a century. Orange
County Register 12/12/99
- TIME
TO REFLECT: It's the end of the century, the millennium. Time to reflect.
But who has time to keep up with the information of the past month, let alone
100 or 1000 years? Overload in the Age of Information. National
Post 12/4/99
- CAN'T
TAKE MY EARS OFF OF YOU: The century's most-played songs on radio and TV, as
compiled by BMI. Dallas Morning News
12/19/99
- NOT
JUST IN MUSEUMS: The 90s - a decade of blockbusters, and not just big art
exhibitions. The arts think big. Dallas
Morning News 12/19/99
- NEW
CENTURY, NEW SOUNDS: Looking ahead at the state of classical music. New
York Times 12/19/99 (one-time
registration required for entry)
- A
HISTORY OF 20TH CENTURY ART (ABRIDGED): There's standard art history, and
then... Boston Globe 12/19/99
- OWNING
A CENTURY: Gunther Grass and his strikingly original "My Century"
with a vignette of two to four pages for each year of the century.
Washington Post 12/19/99
- SHAPING
A CENTURY OF THEATER: Two movements six decades apart. Orange
County Register 12/19/99
- NOW
THAT WAS A PARTY: Paris' celebration of the dawn of 1900 attracted 50
million people in seven months and helped shape the present day city. The Royal
Academy's new show will look again at the state of art 100 years ago, and to
look at it in the same way that contemporaries saw it at the Exposition
Universelle. That is, not yet sorted, winnowed and neatly docketed by
generations of art historians. London
Telegraph 12/12/99
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Telegraph 12/26/99