From SFGate:
Bay Area’s Irish Get to Tell Their Stories
Celebrate more than Saint Paddy this month with The Crossroads Irish-American Festival, San Francisco Irish Oral History Archive Project, and the Irish California exhibit at California Historical Society.
From The Guardian:
Robert Redford to Bring Sundance Festival to London
The actor is planning a small-scale version of the famous film festival in London at the O2 in April 2012.
From The Guardian:
Whose Painting Is It Anyway? Collector Sues the Gagosian
Oh another scandal in the art world…
From NPR Music:
Jazz Drummer Joe Morello, Of ‘Take Five’ Fame, Dies At 82
The drummer from the Dave Brubeck Quartet also played with pianist and NPR host Marian McPartland.
From The New York Times:
Hugh Martin, 96, Songwriter of Judy Garland Standards
The composer, lyricist, arranger and pianist Martin died on Friday at his home in Encinitas, California.
From The New York Times:
Leo Steinberg, Art Historian, Dies at 90
Steinberg wrote the controversial book, The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion.
From The New York Times:
Publisher Limits Shelf Life for Library E-Books
The brave new world of e-books is being defined.
From The New York Times:
Dallas Museum Is Sued
25 years later, a donor’s son sues the Dallas Museum of Art over a collection of paintings by Van Gogh, Renoir, and Pissarro.
From The New York Times:
Smithsonian’s Controversial Show May Come to Brooklyn Museum and Tacoma Art Museum
The controversial National Portrait Gallery exhibition Hide/Seek may travel with the Wojnarowicz video.
From Yahoo News via The Associated Press:
Bob Dylan to perform in Vietnam for the first time
General admission tickets are priced slightly higher than Vietnam’s monthly minimum wage. Talk about a bargain…
Miscellaneous News You Can Use
The National Book Critics Circle winners 2011 were announced. Read the announcement at bookcritics.org. (Also, listen to Jennifer Egan read on The Writers’ Block and her interview on Forum.)
And if you didn’t make it to Texas for the South by Southwest Music Festival, check out our San Francisco at South by Southwest: The Mixtapes episode of The Bay Bridged.