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...agrees violinist Chang. So powerful is the attraction, the performers waive their usual fees - an artist of Chang's wattage can command upward of €20,000 for a single performance - and settle for what amounts to an expenses-paid working holiday. Not even their agents are complaining. Stephen Wright, managing director of IMG Artists U.K., says, "Verbier has an atmosphere of music making as it should be. Artists need that to keep going, as much as they need food and drink - and their big fees the rest of the year." The music industry loves the festival because the unusual...
...cloudless spring morning, among boarded-up row houses in North Philadelphia, the asphalt school yard at Wright Elementary is a blur of arriving children, many in uniforms getting a bit too tight and too short as the year draws to a close. Glasses propped on top of her head, hand on a child's shoulder, Wright's motherly principal, Anita Duke, rolls a rickety cart with a microphone and speaker into the yard for the morning announcements and starts another day. It's Duke's 29th year working in Philadelphia's public schools, her sixth at Wright...
Despite her initial skepticism about Victory Schools, the New York City--based company assigned to manage Wright this year, Duke chose to give the firm a try, persuaded her wary staff to do the same and then hoped for the best. "We dumb-lucked out," she says. Of the three for-profits awarded contracts, Victory is the only one that has been given an additional school to run next year, and it also seems likely to manage some of the small high schools that Philadelphia schools chief Vallas would like to open in the next few years, replacing the district...
...gifts, to say nothing of her press. There's another contemporary art center in Rome, offices and a factory for BMW in Leipzig, Germany, and a master plan for an enormous science city in Singapore. Her next American project is an art center near the base of Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower in Bartlesville, Okla...
...kind of space that they inhabit every day," says Hadid. She calls the central conceit of the interior an "urban carpet," black diagonal stairways that hang in space like gangways. It will not just circulate crowds but also provide some of the same interior spectacle as Wright's great spiral at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Or think of the escalator atrium at any canny shopping mall. To be a museum these days is to compete in the world of theme parks and retail. That is fine with Hadid. "The idea of the urban carpet is to bring...