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Friday, April 28




Ideas

The New Seven Wonders? The list to choose the new seven modern wonders of the world has been narrowed to 21. They include: Acropolis in Athens; the Alhambra in Granada, Spain; Angkor, Cambodia; Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico; Christ Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro; the Colosseum in Rome; Easter Island Statues, Chile; Eiffel Tower, Paris; Great Wall, China; Hagia Sofia, Istanbul; Kyomizu Temple, Kyoto, Japan; Kremlin/St. Basil, Moscow; Machu Picchu, Peru; Neuschwanstein Castle, Füssen, Germany; Petra, Jordan; Pyramids of Giza, Egypt; the Statue of Liberty, New York; Stonehenge, Amesbury, United Kingdom; Sydney Opera House, Australia; the Taj Majal, Agra, India; and Timbuktu, Mali. Discovery 04/27/06
Posted: 04/28/2006 12:26 am

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Visual Arts

Government Crackdown A Blow For Chinese Art "Contemporary art in China has matured from the days when it was mainly imitative of the Western avant garde. The number of artists has spiked. Yet the crackdown on political art shows that official lines continue to be drawn firmly when it comes to the sacred goods of the nation, and that no political images or themes that are unapproved may be shown - even in relatively secluded places like Dashanzi, visited mainly by foreigners and a self-selecting group of educated Chinese." Christian Science Monitor 04/27/06
Posted: 04/28/2006 12:45 am

Turkey Wants Back British Museum Stele Turkey has made a claim on a stele in the British Museum. "The basalt stele, dating from the first century BC, depicts a relief of Herakles greeting the sun-god, with a Greek inscription on the reverse." The Art Newspaper 04/27/06
Posted: 04/27/2006 9:38 pm

NY Gallery Named In Italian Artifacts Trial "Italian prosecutors on Wednesday named a New York art gallery as a key link in what they say was a vast conspiracy to market stolen artifacts that allegedly involved a former J. Paul Getty museum curator on trial here." The Guardian (UK) (AP) 04/27/06
Posted: 04/27/2006 9:31 pm

"Art" Bombs Shut Down London West London was shut down Wednesday as police checked out five suspected nail bombs. Then a woman stepped forward to eay they were part of her art. "Some of the packages were cardboard boxes containing soft toys and training shoes with nails sticking out of them. A 36-year-old local woman was held on suspicion of causing a public nuisance." BBC 04/27/06
Posted: 04/27/2006 9:15 pm

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Music

Two More Leave Baltimore Symphony Management Ranks The president of the orchestra's board and the orchestra's general manager have resigned. They follow the departure of executive director James Glicker. The orchestra recently raided its endowment fund to pay off debt, and is about to start negotiations with its musicians on a new contract. Baltimore Sun 04/28/06
Posted: 04/28/2006 6:43 am

Chicago Symphony Appoints Haitink The Chicago Symphony has named Bernard Haitink to the newly-created post of principal conductor, as longtime music director Daniel Barenboim prepares to depart. "Pierre Boulez, 81, the CSO's principal guest conductor since 1995, will become conductor emeritus." Chicago Sun-Times 04/28/06
Posted: 04/28/2006 12:40 am

Billy Joel Piano Concerto To Get Premiere "Pianist Jeffrey Biegel will perform the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with the EMF faculty orchestra. Biegel had initially asked Joel to write him a concerto, but due to time constraints the pop star suggested that some of his solo piano pieces be reworked into a concerto." PlaybillArts 04/27/06
Posted: 04/28/2006 12:17 am

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Arts Issues

Kennedy Center's Arab Initiative The Kennedy Center will stage a major festival of Arab art. "We don't know enough about what other people are about. We read about government and politics. That doesn't say anything about what they like, what they find beautiful. Also, the idea starts from my rather naive belief that arts create peace." Washington Post 04/28/06
Posted: 04/28/2006 9:21 am

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People

Jane Jacobs, "Down-to-earth Cassandra" "Jacobs' long run as a complex, down-to-earth Cassandra: a woman who wore comfortable shoes while dishing out uncomfortable truths, who kept her ear to the ground while trying to topple giants. What Jacobs hated most — what she saw in Robert Moses, and what she always tried to avoid in her own public appearances after she gained a measure of fame — was what she called the "Olympian vantage point" of the planners who were trying in the postwar years to apply the spare, muscular forms of Modern architecture to the design of entire cities, hollowing out old neighborhoods and running giant overpasses along waterfront promenades." Los Angeles Times 04/28/06
Posted: 04/28/2006 6:59 am

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Theatre

Back To The 80s - The Wedding Singer "This transformation of a Hollywood movie into a Broadway musical, a trend that appears as irreversible as global warming, is an example of recycled recycling, or second-hand nostalgia." The New York Times 04/28/06
Posted: 04/28/2006 7:13 am

Actress Quits Broadway Over Baldwin Actress Jan Maxwell quit the Broadway production of "Entertaining Mr. Sloane," complaining about actor Alec Baldwin. In the e-mail, Maxwell said Baldwin put his fist through a wall and was "throwing things around with all of us cowering," and Maxwell accused Baldwin of giving the Roundabout an ultimatum: refusing to go on with her. Backstage 04/27/06
Posted: 04/27/2006 9:48 pm

UK Theatres Seek Smoking Ban Exemption Theatres in the UK are looking for onstage exemption to a general smoking ban. "Exemptions are now being considered where smoking is integral to the plot. The government is considering providing a specific exemption from smoke-free legislation to ensure that smoking can take place on stage during live theatrical performances, or during film and television recording." BBC 04/27/06
Posted: 04/27/2006 9:05 pm

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Publishing

Publisher Pulls Viswanathan Book A novel by a Harvard student has been withdrawn from publication by the book's publisher. Michael Pietsch, the firm's publisher, said in a brief statement that bookstores would be asked to stop selling "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life" and return any remaining copies to the publisher. He said the book's author, Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan, had agreed to the withdrawal. Washington Post 04/28/06
Posted: 04/28/2006 9:18 am

Pittsburgh Library A Hit With Kids Who uses Pittsburgh's libraries? Kids. According to a new study, the city's Carnegie Library is a hit. "A magnet for teenagers and 20-somethings, the library rivals a shopping mall with its assortment of books, videos, DVDs and Internet access. The former bastion of the bookish, the library draws more crowds than the region's sports teams." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 04/28/06
Posted: 04/28/2006 7:16 am

Why Lit Prizes Pass Over Women "The most prestigious prize-giving culture in Britain still often shows itself weirdly unable to recognise and reward the greatest writing, and for some reason books by women are still often the ones that lose out. When Zadie Smith's ferocious and heartfelt novel On Beauty lost out in the Booker race last year to John Banville's desiccated The Sea, it was only what one has come to expect from the Booker prize." The Guardian (UK) 04/27/06
Posted: 04/28/2006 12:23 am

Dartmouth Review At 25 "For a quarter century, its jaunty pages have enlivened the idyllic campus in Hanover, N.H., challenging liberal presuppositions — sometimes raucously — while earning recognition as a model for conservative newspapers nationwide. Distributed door to door to every student and mailed to subscribers across the country, the Review has been at the center of stormy cultural and political debates since its inception." New York Sun 04/28/06
Posted: 04/27/2006 11:53 pm

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Media

Star Power Do big stars really matter to the movies? "If carefully tended, thoughtfully managed and brilliantly used, stars can still make a movie work as an almost dizzyingly proficient entertainment. If mishandled, they throw the project out of whack so that it putters along like a toy car with a wheel missing." Los Angeles Times 04/28/06
Posted: 04/28/2006 7:01 am

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Dance

Diamond With Seven Edges This year's New York City Ballet Diamond features seven chorographers. "Now in its sixth installment, the project was the idea of Peter Martins, balletmaster in chief of City Ballet. And he had an enthusiastic sponsor in Irene Diamond, a feisty former Hollywood script and talent scout who became a philanthropist. Today her fund is a major sponsor of the project." The New York Times 04/28/06
Posted: 04/28/2006 12:34 am

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