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Museums RSS FeedsOn Broadway, financial squeeze sets off wave of angst - Money to develop and nurture new work on Broadway is drying up. Will this shrink the flow of innovative shows, or could a forced financial diet actually improve quality?...Feed Source: www.iht.com Book prizes awarded with nod to history - Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for nonfiction for "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family," while Peter Matthiessen won the fiction award for "Shadow Country."... Peter Matthiessen's trilogy has become a single novel: Does it matter? - Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," is a one-volume compilation of three novels that Matthiessen published from 1990 to 1999: "Killing Mister Watson," "Lost Man's River" and "Bone by Bone." He is among the nominees for the National Book Award. Can his novel be considered new?... Matthiessen wins National Book Award fiction prize - The economy hung like a cloud over the 59th annual National Book Awards. Barack Obama was the silver lining.... Peter Matthiessen's trilogy has become a single novel: Does it matter? - Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," is a one-volume compilation of three novels that Matthiessen published from 1990 to 1999: "Killing Mister Watson," "Lost Man's River" and "Bone by Bone." He is among the nominees for the National Book Award. Can his novel be considered new?... For studio, vampire movie is a Cinderella story - Tiny Summit Entertainment finds itself sitting atop one of the biggest pop-culture phenomena of recent years.... Another kind of vampire romance - Heinrich Marschner's "Der Vampyr" is being revived at Bologna's Teatro Communale in a fine production by the veteran director Pier Luigi Pizzi.... 'Twilight': The vampire of the mall - Robert Pattinson, the heartthrob star of the coming film adaptation of the vampire romance novel "Twilight," meets his squealing fans.... Ricky Gervais: He's out for laughs, and no one is safe - In 'Out of England', Gervais blends the slimy self-delusion of David Brent, his character on the original version of "The Office," with the aggrieved hostility he perfected in "Extras" on HBO.... Book review: "Autophobia" and Just After Sunset: Stories - In his work Brian Ladd looks at what has been said, by whom and for what reason, and why none of the voluminous critiques of the car have mattered much. Stephen King's new collection of short stories mines the rest-stop idea to the max.... Peter Matthiessen, Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Paris Hilton - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Peter Matthiessen's trilogy has become a single novel: Does it matter? - Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," is a one-volume compilation of three novels that Matthiessen published from 1990 to 1999: "Killing Mister Watson," "Lost Man's River" and "Bone by Bone." He is among the nominees for the National Book Award. Can his novel be considered new?... Taco Bell lawyers get tough with rapper 50 Cent - Rapper 50 Cent is facing a challenge to his street credibility ? from Taco Bell.... Wallace Shawn on 'Gossip Girl': The image that perplexes - The actor and playwright Wallace Shawn appears on the television series 'Gossip Girl' as a squinty-eyed mystery suitor of Blair Waldorf's mother. He is sure to disappoint the kids.... Putting the story back into onscreen storytelling - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory has opened a new Center for Future Storytelling that will examine whether the old way of telling stories on screen is in serious trouble.... Yo-Yo Ma, John Travolta, Miley Cyrus - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... John Sergeant quits 'Strictly Come Dancing' - Retired BBC political correspondent John Sergeant has waltzed off the British TV talent show "Strictly Come Dancing," saying he is afraid he might win.... Hollywood ponders global warming - Hollywood insiders and climate change experts agree that they can't shove messages about global warming down audiences' throats.... Reviews: 'Outliers' and 'Gone Tomorrow' - Malcolm Gladwell's latest book uses the same recipe as his previous best sellers but does so in a manner that highlights its weaknesses; while P.F.Kluge's sharply observed novel about academic life describes the dangers that a writer-teacher faces.... For books, is Obama the new Oprah? - So just which book "about FDR's first 100 days" was President-elect Barack Obama talking about when he appeared on "60 Minutes" on Sunday?... At meeting, Smithsonian practices new openness - The Smithsonian Institution held the first public board meeting in its 162-year history on Monday. The first question: "Why did you not all resign?"... David Chan: A concertmaster whose other passion is wine - David Chan, concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, says "talking about wine is like talking about music."... 'Gethsemane': Putting white heat on politics - The new David Hare play, 'Gethsemane,' treats the political and social issues of the day, but sometimes seems dated. 'Piaf' boasts an outsized performance by Elena Roger.... Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Springsteen - A round-up of the day's celebrity news.... Book review: The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath - The author Robert J. Samuelson sees the "Great Inflation" of the U.S. economy in the late 1970s as a watershed in American history.... Another kind of vampire romance - Heinrich Marschner's "Der Vampyr" is being revived at Bologna's Teatro Communale in a fine production by the veteran director Pier Luigi Pizzi.... 'Twilight': The vampire of the mall - Robert Pattinson, the heartthrob star of the coming film adaptation of the vampire romance novel "Twilight," meets his squealing fans.... A teenage vampire tale and its careful retelling - As the legions of teenagers who have read the novel on which the forthcoming film "Twilight" is based know, the awkward passage from youth to maturity isn't the very worst problem an adolescent can have.... A hip-hop writer's wish to reconcile 2 sides of New York - Hoch's show, "Taking Over," about gentrification in New York, is now in previews at the Public Theater and opens next Sunday.... When getting into preschool becomes an obsession - When the filmmaker behind "Nursery University," a documentary about the cutthroat admission process at elite preschools in New York, set out to make his film, he found that he couldn't get in, either.... Book review: 'American Lion' - Andrew Jackson's domestic life in the White House is a tale of revenge.... For Buffalo, New York, an architectural crossroads - Local preservationists are completing restorations on some of the most important landmarks in Buffalo, New York, while the federal government is considering a plan that could wipe out part of a historic neighborhood.... Kanye West, Lindsay Lohan, Ann Curry - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Recessionary design: A boom time for creative energy - Design has always coped well with austerity, and is especially well-equipped to do so now.... Bond film is tops at U.S. box office - The new James Bond film sold an estimated $70.4 million in tickets at North American theaters, setting an opening-weekend record for the franchise.... Beyoncé: Ready to shed her good-girl image? - In her new movie "Cadillac Records," Beyoncé Knowles swaggers and swears through her performance as Etta James.... Book review: 'A Great Idea at the Time' - Alex Beam relates how Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Adler and a few others whittled the literary, scientific and philosophical canon down to 443 exemplary works to be included in their Great Books of the Western World.... In 'Quantum of Solace', James Bond evolves as a tragic figure - "Quantum of Solace" begs the question: Is revenge the only possible motive for large-scale movie heroism these days?... Spy games with Daniel Craig - Unlike many movie stars who come to believe the myth of their superiority, Craig - whose second James Bond film, "Quantum of Solace," is being released this week - tends to mock his own celebrity.... Centennial Fleming and perennial Bond - There are now, in addition to the 12 Bond novels that Ian Fleming actually wrote, almost twice as many that he didn't. And in the movies, the spy is still going strong.... At auctions, contemporary art shows its strength - At sales of contemporary art at Sotheby's and Christie's this week the divergence between the economy at large and the auction scene was striking.... Miguel Syjuco, Olga Kurylenko, Juanes - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Studio shots offer glimpses of high society's best - Portrait photographs of the Asian elite from the late 1800s to early 1900s are being shown in the exhibition "Neither East Nor West: Asians in Monochrome" at the Asian Civilisation Museum in Singapore.... Mitch Mitchell, drummer for Jimi Hendrix Experience, dies at 61 - The jazzy and versatile British drummer for Hendrix died Wednesday in a hotel in Portland, Oregon. The cause was unknown, a publicist said.... Chagall: The inflated stardom of a Russian artist - In an engaging, almost painting-by-painting biography, the writer Jackie Wullschlager backs up her dislike of Chagall (drawing on archival letters and memoirs), portraying the artist as a social climber and a prince of self-pity.... A documentary about the Obama campaign is drawing wide interest - A documentary, more than two years in the making, about President-elect Barack Obama's campaign is gathering significant interest from international distributors.... A.B. Yehoshua's 'Friendly Fire' - The depth, and burdens, of Jewish life in Israel form the central themes of Yehoshua's latest novel.... Roy Blount Jr's 'Alphabet Juice' - This alphabetically arranged book reads like a big bag of salty snacks: nibble five or six of its 500-plus entries and you'll have to wolf the whole thing.... On Broadway, financial squeeze sets off wave of angst - Money to develop and nurture new work on Broadway is drying up. Will this shrink the flow of innovative shows, or could a forced financial diet actually improve quality?... Book prizes awarded with nod to history - Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for nonfiction for "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family," while Peter Matthiessen won the fiction award for "Shadow Country."... Peter Matthiessen's trilogy has become a single novel: Does it matter? - Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," is a one-volume compilation of three novels that Matthiessen published from 1990 to 1999: "Killing Mister Watson," "Lost Man's River" and "Bone by Bone." He is among the nominees for the National Book Award. Can his novel be considered new?... Matthiessen wins National Book Award fiction prize - The economy hung like a cloud over the 59th annual National Book Awards. Barack Obama was the silver lining.... Peter Matthiessen's trilogy has become a single novel: Does it matter? - Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," is a one-volume compilation of three novels that Matthiessen published from 1990 to 1999: "Killing Mister Watson," "Lost Man's River" and "Bone by Bone." He is among the nominees for the National Book Award. Can his novel be considered new?... For studio, vampire movie is a Cinderella story - Tiny Summit Entertainment finds itself sitting atop one of the biggest pop-culture phenomena of recent years.... Another kind of vampire romance - Heinrich Marschner's "Der Vampyr" is being revived at Bologna's Teatro Communale in a fine production by the veteran director Pier Luigi Pizzi.... 'Twilight': The vampire of the mall - Robert Pattinson, the heartthrob star of the coming film adaptation of the vampire romance novel "Twilight," meets his squealing fans.... Ricky Gervais: He's out for laughs, and no one is safe - In 'Out of England', Gervais blends the slimy self-delusion of David Brent, his character on the original version of "The Office," with the aggrieved hostility he perfected in "Extras" on HBO.... Book review: "Autophobia" and Just After Sunset: Stories - In his work Brian Ladd looks at what has been said, by whom and for what reason, and why none of the voluminous critiques of the car have mattered much. Stephen King's new collection of short stories mines the rest-stop idea to the max.... Peter Matthiessen, Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Paris Hilton - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Peter Matthiessen's trilogy has become a single novel: Does it matter? - Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," is a one-volume compilation of three novels that Matthiessen published from 1990 to 1999: "Killing Mister Watson," "Lost Man's River" and "Bone by Bone." He is among the nominees for the National Book Award. Can his novel be considered new?... Taco Bell lawyers get tough with rapper 50 Cent - Rapper 50 Cent is facing a challenge to his street credibility ? from Taco Bell.... Wallace Shawn on 'Gossip Girl': The image that perplexes - The actor and playwright Wallace Shawn appears on the television series 'Gossip Girl' as a squinty-eyed mystery suitor of Blair Waldorf's mother. He is sure to disappoint the kids.... Putting the story back into onscreen storytelling - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory has opened a new Center for Future Storytelling that will examine whether the old way of telling stories on screen is in serious trouble.... Yo-Yo Ma, John Travolta, Miley Cyrus - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... John Sergeant quits 'Strictly Come Dancing' - Retired BBC political correspondent John Sergeant has waltzed off the British TV talent show "Strictly Come Dancing," saying he is afraid he might win.... Hollywood ponders global warming - Hollywood insiders and climate change experts agree that they can't shove messages about global warming down audiences' throats.... Reviews: 'Outliers' and 'Gone Tomorrow' - Malcolm Gladwell's latest book uses the same recipe as his previous best sellers but does so in a manner that highlights its weaknesses; while P.F.Kluge's sharply observed novel about academic life describes the dangers that a writer-teacher faces.... For books, is Obama the new Oprah? - So just which book "about FDR's first 100 days" was President-elect Barack Obama talking about when he appeared on "60 Minutes" on Sunday?... At meeting, Smithsonian practices new openness - The Smithsonian Institution held the first public board meeting in its 162-year history on Monday. The first question: "Why did you not all resign?"... David Chan: A concertmaster whose other passion is wine - David Chan, concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, says "talking about wine is like talking about music."... 'Gethsemane': Putting white heat on politics - The new David Hare play, 'Gethsemane,' treats the political and social issues of the day, but sometimes seems dated. 'Piaf' boasts an outsized performance by Elena Roger.... Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Springsteen - A round-up of the day's celebrity news.... Book review: The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath - The author Robert J. Samuelson sees the "Great Inflation" of the U.S. economy in the late 1970s as a watershed in American history.... Another kind of vampire romance - Heinrich Marschner's "Der Vampyr" is being revived at Bologna's Teatro Communale in a fine production by the veteran director Pier Luigi Pizzi.... 'Twilight': The vampire of the mall - Robert Pattinson, the heartthrob star of the coming film adaptation of the vampire romance novel "Twilight," meets his squealing fans.... A teenage vampire tale and its careful retelling - As the legions of teenagers who have read the novel on which the forthcoming film "Twilight" is based know, the awkward passage from youth to maturity isn't the very worst problem an adolescent can have.... A hip-hop writer's wish to reconcile 2 sides of New York - Hoch's show, "Taking Over," about gentrification in New York, is now in previews at the Public Theater and opens next Sunday.... When getting into preschool becomes an obsession - When the filmmaker behind "Nursery University," a documentary about the cutthroat admission process at elite preschools in New York, set out to make his film, he found that he couldn't get in, either.... Book review: 'American Lion' - Andrew Jackson's domestic life in the White House is a tale of revenge.... For Buffalo, New York, an architectural crossroads - Local preservationists are completing restorations on some of the most important landmarks in Buffalo, New York, while the federal government is considering a plan that could wipe out part of a historic neighborhood.... Kanye West, Lindsay Lohan, Ann Curry - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Recessionary design: A boom time for creative energy - Design has always coped well with austerity, and is especially well-equipped to do so now.... Bond film is tops at U.S. box office - The new James Bond film sold an estimated $70.4 million in tickets at North American theaters, setting an opening-weekend record for the franchise.... Beyoncé: Ready to shed her good-girl image? - In her new movie "Cadillac Records," Beyoncé Knowles swaggers and swears through her performance as Etta James.... Book review: 'A Great Idea at the Time' - Alex Beam relates how Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Adler and a few others whittled the literary, scientific and philosophical canon down to 443 exemplary works to be included in their Great Books of the Western World.... In 'Quantum of Solace', James Bond evolves as a tragic figure - "Quantum of Solace" begs the question: Is revenge the only possible motive for large-scale movie heroism these days?... Spy games with Daniel Craig - Unlike many movie stars who come to believe the myth of their superiority, Craig - whose second James Bond film, "Quantum of Solace," is being released this week - tends to mock his own celebrity.... Centennial Fleming and perennial Bond - There are now, in addition to the 12 Bond novels that Ian Fleming actually wrote, almost twice as many that he didn't. And in the movies, the spy is still going strong.... At auctions, contemporary art shows its strength - At sales of contemporary art at Sotheby's and Christie's this week the divergence between the economy at large and the auction scene was striking.... Miguel Syjuco, Olga Kurylenko, Juanes - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Studio shots offer glimpses of high society's best - Portrait photographs of the Asian elite from the late 1800s to early 1900s are being shown in the exhibition "Neither East Nor West: Asians in Monochrome" at the Asian Civilisation Museum in Singapore.... Mitch Mitchell, drummer for Jimi Hendrix Experience, dies at 61 - The jazzy and versatile British drummer for Hendrix died Wednesday in a hotel in Portland, Oregon. The cause was unknown, a publicist said.... Chagall: The inflated stardom of a Russian artist - In an engaging, almost painting-by-painting biography, the writer Jackie Wullschlager backs up her dislike of Chagall (drawing on archival letters and memoirs), portraying the artist as a social climber and a prince of self-pity.... A documentary about the Obama campaign is drawing wide interest - A documentary, more than two years in the making, about President-elect Barack Obama's campaign is gathering significant interest from international distributors.... A.B. Yehoshua's 'Friendly Fire' - The depth, and burdens, of Jewish life in Israel form the central themes of Yehoshua's latest novel.... Roy Blount Jr's 'Alphabet Juice' - This alphabetically arranged book reads like a big bag of salty snacks: nibble five or six of its 500-plus entries and you'll have to wolf the whole thing.... Events at the Old Operating Theatre Museum - The latest events held by the Museum... Grants received by the Old Operating Theatre Museum - Details of grants and projects undertaken by the Museum ... Development Plan for the Old Operating Theatre Museum - Opportunity to look at the plans to improve the Museum - could we purchase the Church below the herb Garret?... News from the Old Operating Theatre Museum - News from our Home Page... History of Medicine Pages - Major rewrite of the History of Medicine Page ... Latest Press Releases from the Museum - The latest press releases from the Old Operating Theatre Museum ... Copyright © 2008, SandyHay.com. All Rights Reserved. |