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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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