Wednesday, May 3
Study: Girls Come Out Ahead On Technology
"After one of the most comprehensive studies of the effect on children of the explosion in media choices of the past 15 years, the regulator Ofcom said girls aged 12 to 15 are more likely than boys to have a mobile phone, use the internet, listen to the radio and read newspapers or magazines. Only when it comes to playing computer and console games do boys overtake girls."
The Guardian (UK)
05/03/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 8:03 pm
Is The Web The New Rock 'n Roll?
"Forty years ago, music was leading a social revolution, disrupting the establishment and empowering a new generation. Today's web technology and social media, known as Web 2.0, or the second wave of the internet, are leading a similar challenge and the long-term effects are likely to be greater. Once again we are divided into those who get it and those who don't."
BBC
05/02/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 5:46 pm
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Afghanistan Antiquities In Peril
Thirty years of war has decimated Afghanistan's cultural heritage. And reconstruction money has been spent on rebuilding the country's infrastructure rather than recovering or restoring damaged treasures...
Philadelphia Inquirer
05/03/06
Posted: 05/03/2006 6:51 am
Rogers At The WTC Site
Architect Richard Rogers will design one of the towers on the World Trade Center site. "Tower 3 is Lord Rogers's fourth major commission in New York. In addition to the Javits Center, which he is designing with FX Fowle, he is involved in a $200 million project to transform a two-mile stretch of the Lower Manhattan waterfront and a $1 billion expansion of Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, Queens."
The New York Times
05/03/06
Posted: 05/03/2006 6:25 am
Matt Stokes Wins Beck's Futures Prize
"Stokes' winning entry, Long After Tonight, is a seven-minute recording of a group of 'soulies' - members of the Northern Soul music phenomena in the Sixties and Seventies - collecting obscure North American soul music, and meeting in venues across the north of England. They are shown dancing hypnotically to a soundtrack as the camera occasionally cuts to ornate religious iconography in a Gothic revivalist church in Dundee."
The Independent (UK)
05/03/06
Posted: 05/03/2006 5:45 am
Van Gogh Sells For $40 Million
The painting sold at auction in New York Thursday night.. "L'Arlesienne, Madame Ginoux commanded the fourth highest price on record for a work by the renowned Dutch artist. The 1890 painting was one in a series of five created in homage to Van Gogh's friend, the artist Paul Gaugin."
BBC
05/03/06
Posted: 05/03/2006 5:39 am
Rare Blake Watercolors Sold
Nineteen rare watercolors by William Blake were auctioned Tuesday in New York. "The works, illustrations for "The Grave," a 1743 poem by the Scottish writer Robert Blair, were discovered five years ago by two British booksellers. At the time, experts heralded them as the most important Blake discovery in a century and said the illustrations should stay together. It appeared that the public agreed; some in the audience spoke of the breakup of the collection as a criminal procedure."
The New York Times
05/03/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 8:19 pm
Monet Waterlilies Get An Unveiling
"After six years of renovation work delayed by archaeological mishaps, Claude Monet's giant Water Lilies are finally back on display at the Orangerie museum in Paris, in a space restored to match the French impressionist's vision of how his work should be hung."
The Guardian (UK)
05/02/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 7:53 pm
Egypt Makes A List Of Antiquities It Wants Back
Egypt is making a list of antiquities it wants returned from other countries. The list of national icons "starts with the Nefertiti bust in Berlin and the Rosetta stone (ca. 200 b.c.) in the British Museum in London. Both of these objects left Egypt a long time ago, the Rosetta stone in the 1820s and the Nefertiti bust in 1912. From the Louvre, [secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities] Zahi Hawass wants the Dendera zodiac (50 b.c.), a map of the heavens that was sawed and blasted out of the ceiling of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera by the agent of a French collector in 1821."
ARTnews
05/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 7:41 pm
An Abu Dhabi Guggenheim?
Guggenheim director Thomas Krens still has dreams of world empire. He's negotiating to open new Guggenheims "in Abu Dhabi and Moscow, ARTnewsletter has learned. According to an informed source, Abu Dhabi representatives have made a $2 million deposit to the foundation in connection with their discussions."
ARTnews
05/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 7:38 pm
Three Convicted In "Scream" Theft
Sentences have been handed down in the trial of six men charged in the theft of Edvard Munch's "The Scream." "They faced various charges relating to the theft of the paintings on 22 August 2004 from the Munch Museum in Oslo. The three convicted men received prison sentences of between four to eight years for their role in the theft."
BBC
05/02/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 5:37 pm
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"Scream" Still Missing
Despite convictions in "The Scream" theft, the iconic painting is still missing. "As long as the world-famous artworks remain missing, today will not be viewed as a conclusion by many here. The three convicted men provided the getaway car, drove it and planned the operation - meaning the two men who actually carried out the robbery are still free."
BBC
05/02/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 5:31 pm
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Longtime Portland Orchestra Director Retires
Conductor Toshiyuki Shimada gives his final concert as music director of the Portland (Maine) Symphony. He led the orchestra for 20 years. "The crowd filled the hall with applause and roars of approval. Audience members, whom Shimada always has viewed as an extended family, stood and cheered for nearly 10 minutes."
Portland Press-Herald
05/03/06
Posted: 05/03/2006 7:19 am
EMI Makes Another Bid For Warner
The recording giant is trying again. "The negotiations are the latest in a series of on-and-off talks between the companies that have unfolded over several years. EMI unsuccessfully bid to buy Warner from its previous parent, Time Warner, in late 2003 before losing out to an investment group led by Mr. Bronfman. Before that, European regulators blocked a proposed merger of the two giants."
The New York Times
05/03/06
Posted: 05/03/2006 7:16 am
Strads - It's Chemistry
What makes Stradivari violins so good? "One scientist thinks he has finally solved the mystery, and he gives the credit not to famed maker Antonio Stradivari but to a nameless 18th Century drugstore chemist from a small town in Italy. Joseph Nagyvary, an emeritus professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Texas A&M University, said several things set a Strad apart, but none more so than the chemicals that hardened the wood and gave each instrument its fiery appearance."
Chicago Tribune (SLT)
05/03/06
Posted: 05/03/2006 7:03 am
Handel Makes A Comeback
"It’s a bit of a mystery why Handel has become so crucial for early-twenty-first-century listeners. The prior century made a cult of Bach, whose music takes the form of an endless contrapuntal quest. Perhaps, in an age of information overload and ambient fear, we have more need for Handel’s gentler, steadier art. At the same time, though, this composer appeals to the permanent hunger for high-class melodrama and psychological theatre."
The New Yorker
05/01/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 7:24 pm
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$50 Million For Canada Council
The new Canadian government has promised $50 million over two years for the Canada Council for the arts. "That's well short of the more than $150 million over three years that had been promised by the previous Liberal government."
CBC
05/02/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 5:50 pm
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Music Critic Leighton Kerner, 79
"Leighton studied at Tufts University and Boston College, receiving degrees in chemical engineering and journalism, before beginning his writing career at Women's Wear Daily, in 1951. In 1955, he moved to The Voice, which carried his byline until 2004. His honors during his Voicetenure included two ASCAP/Deems Taylor Awards and a letter of distinction from the American Music Center. He also wrote for Musical America and Travel + Leisure."
Opera News
05/03/06
Posted: 05/03/2006 7:14 am
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An Endangered Species Program For Playwrights
The Pacific Playwrights Festival struggles to promote playwrights. "The American theater is losing too many talented writers. Aspiring playwrights are getting discouraged, especially as other development programs die off. Emerging playwrights, unable to make a living, are moonlighting in Hollywood and never coming back. Established playwrights are having trouble finding homes for scripts that lack commercial appeal."
Los Angeles Times
05/03/06
Posted: 05/03/2006 5:58 am
Is Michael Frayn Retiring?
That's the rumor about the playwright, at least. "What seems to have happened is that Frayn, asked by a reporter the traditional question as to what he was writing at the moment, replied with an absolute honesty that honours both his old NUJ card and his hobby of philo- sophy: nothing." Not to worry, though. "A few weeks on, he is about to begin a screenplay of Headlong, his 1999 novel about an art-theft, but has no inklings of new books or plays, and is too scrupulous or superstitious to assume that they will come."
The Guardian (UK)
05/02/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 7:57 pm
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Lost Out Of Translation
Only three percent of the books published in the US are translations, compared with almost 70 percent in Italy. What does that mean for the American reading public? "To reduce translation to this miserable 3 percent is to lose your sense of what is out there."
Philadelphia Inquirer
05/03/06
Posted: 05/03/2006 7:00 am
Bid To Buy Waterstone's Fails
Waterstone's founder Tim Waterstone has withdrawn his bid to buy back the bookseller from HMV. "Mr Waterstone, who founded the business almost 25 years ago, claimed HMV had imposed 'ludicrous' conditions for the deal, leaving him and his backers, Lazard European Private Equity Partners, with no alternative but to withdraw."
The Guardian (UK)
05/03/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 8:01 pm
More Plagiarism In Viswanathan Book
More plagiarism charges have been made against Kaavya Viswanathan's "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life." At least three passages "bear striking similarities to writing in 'Can You Keep a Secret?,' a chick-lit novel by Sophie Kinsella. The copying from Ms. Kinsella's book does not seem to be as extensive as Ms. Viswanathan's borrowing from two novels by Megan McCafferty, 'Sloppy Firsts' and 'Second Helpings,' both published by Crown, a division of Random House. In that case, Crown contends that more than 40 passages were copied from Ms. McCafferty's books."
The New York Times
05/02/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 7:48 pm
Philip Roth Wins PEN Lifetime Award
Philip Roth, whose many novels include "Portnoy's Complaint" and "The Plot Against America," has received the PEN/Nabokov Award for lifetime achievement, a prize worth $20,000.
Yahoo! (AP)
05/01/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 7:34 pm
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TV News Magazines Suffer In The Ratings
Broadcast network newsmagazines are at a low ebb -- with likely even fewer hours on the air next season -- and the popularity of reality television is chiefly to blame. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (AP)
05/03/06
Posted: 05/03/2006 6:46 am
Who Loses Most In WB/UPN Merger?
"Diversity on broadcast network television has been an issue for years and though each network has promised to better reflect the viewing audience -- and in some cases delivered on those promises -- UPN has been the only network to actively program for an African American audience." With the merger, however, 23 hours of programming -- 13 from the WB and 10 from UPN -- will be lost. San Francisco Chronicle
05/02/06
Posted: 05/03/2006 6:42 am
A Fake Book From A Fictional TV Character
Talk about your product placement. "Lost, in just two seasons, has perfected the art of gleefully leading the audience around by their dangly bits, sending viewers scurrying into chat rooms to hash out possible theories. Are the characters dead? Are they in Hell? Is it all a strange drug-induced experiment? Obviously not satisfied with the self-generated fan obsession, Disney decided to give it a little push with the publication of Bad Twin. Bad Twin is written by a fictitious dead Lost character." Toronto Star
05/03/06
Posted: 05/03/2006 6:32 am
Microsoft Plunges Back Into Multimedia
The company is commissioning new shows and making partnerships in Hollywood. "To harness the Web's attributes, many of the shows and applications will wrap around them community offshoots, commerce opportunities and the ability to dig deeper for related segments or information. Product placement will also be an integral part of the programming." The New York Times
05/03/06
Posted: 05/03/2006 6:04 am
Why Paintings Don't Work On TV
Visual art is unlikely ever to be a ratings success on TV. "The problem is that there is only so much footage of paintings an audience will tolerate, so TV tends to turn art history into a series of easily digested dramas. Tales of struggling artists, eccentric collectors, sexy models and huge prices are the staples of art telly and can overshadow the art. But maybe part of what makes a work of art great is its story." The Times (UK)
05/02/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 8:09 pm
Film Festival Threatened By Lawmaker
"The Ann Arbor Film Festival could lose its state funding under a legislative amendment that singles out the annual event, and one lawmaker is accusing the festival of showing pornography." Ann Arbor News
04/30/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 7:12 pm
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Acocella: The Troubled Graham Legacy
The troubled Martha Graham Company season was down to one performance - a gala - this year. And there's plenty that's not working right, writes Joan Acocella. "So certain things didn’t work. And for a portion of the Graham audience, I suspect, [artistic director Janet] Eilber’s whole effort to renovate this repertory is not going to work. No artist ever had a greater reputation for high-mindedness than Graham. That was part of her mystique, and so, for some of her old fans, a program like this is going to look like a cheap sales job."
The New Yorker
05/01/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 7:20 pm
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