from Los Angeles Times - The Arts May 14th, 2008 Celebrities put on a staged reading of "Taming of the Shrew."
Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Annette Bening, William Shatner, Christina Applegate, Sean Astin, Zach Braff and other celebrities will perform a staged reading of "The Taming of the Shrew" -- with live music and songs provided by Lyle Lovett -- as a benefit for Shakespeare Festival/LA Monday evening at UCLA's Freud Playhouse. read more... |
from Los Angeles Times - The Arts May 13th, 2008 Dutch architect's Guggenheim Hermitage Museum closes at the Venetian Hotel, evidence that the city's visitors seek glitz and gambling, not art and culture.
LAS VEGAS -- Like a lot of Las Vegas marriages, the one between the Venetian Hotel and the Guggenheim Museum was born of some seriously misplaced optimism. Presided over by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, with St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum standing by as a comically out-of-place bridesmaid, the union was planned in the late 1990s, when the Guggenheim brand and the transformative power of high-design architecture both seemed unassailable. read more... |
from NYT > Art & Design May 13th, 2008 Mr. Rauschenberg, who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, defied the traditional idea that an artist stick to one medium or style. read more... |
from NYT > Art & Design May 12th, 2008 “Mike’s World: Michael Smith & Joshua White (and other collaborators)” is a terrifically entertaining and philosophically compelling survey, at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, of Mr. Smith’s 30-year career. read more... |
from art design - Google News May 13th, 2008
Student wins top design awardThe Press Association - 3 hours agoClaire McAlister, who is a final year student in National College of Art and Design in Dublin, won the prize for her creation, In Suspense. ... | read more... |
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