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...place before Govan's arrival, but he has already convinced the architect to rethink the museum's new entrance and brought in the sort of contemporary artists who helped put his Dia:Beacon on the international map. Chris Burden is readying more than 200 historic lampposts, and Robert Irwin is curating a garden of palm trees. If all goes according to plan, expect a 161-ft. (49 m) crane dangling a 70-ft. (21.3 m) train replica courtesy of Jeff Koons, plus a 400-ton Michael Heizer rock, which Govan boasts will be "one of the largest monolithic objects moved...
...Director Robert Scanlan emphasized the un-theatricality of “Beckett at 100” with this line in his introduction to the show. As Scanlan explained, Irish dramatist Samuel Beckett wrote the three plays, which made up the New College Theatre’s most recent offering, independently and intended for them to be produced through different media. “Words and Music” and “Cascando” were originally for the radio and “...but the clouds...” for television...
...plays follow his efforts to control and combine the production of words and music. Actor Mickey Solis portrays the former as Joe in “Words and Music” and Voice in “Cascando.” An ensemble of pianist Donald Berman, percussionist Robert Schulz, and violinist Gil Morgenstern personifies music as Bob in “Words and Music” and Music in “Cascando...
...While Rowling's tales have long been cultural touchstones and commercial blockbusters, at Robert Mellors they permeate every aspect of this term's studies. In literacy classes, students learn to distinguish between types of prose by writing their own screenplays based on Potter's exploits; they pick up the basics of geography by plotting locations used in the Potter films. The student body is divided into the four "houses" in Rowling's novels - Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Slytherin - and earn "house points" for academic achievement, just as in the books. "It's made school a lot easier and better," says...
...Robert Mellors, nestled among two-story brick homes in an ordinary residential neighborhood, has none of the grandeur and mystery of Hogwarts, let alone its cavernous dining hall. But here, as in the books from which it drew inspiration, the key to success has been the wondrous power of a child's imagination. "By the nature of the beast, children are more creative than we are," Chambers says. "So they will make the connections and do it enthusiastically." The Robert Mellors School proves that when education is packaged to encourage those connections, it can cast a powerful spell - just like...