“If completed it would rank as one of the most significant works of architecture to rise in Los Angeles since Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall opened 10 years ago. It would also require demolishing the core of the museum’s campus, including the original 1965 buildings by William L. Pereira and a 1986 addition by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates of New York.”
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Could The NYT Book Review Be Near Its End?
“Only the awkwardness of admitting otherwise maintains the assumption of a necessary Book Review. It quite simply has no ads. The entire newspaper is challenged by falling advertising, but the Book Review is really at the end of this road. Practically speaking, it has no revenue.”
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Lockout Is Over
“After a 191-day lockout, SPCO musicians ratified a three-year contract Monday that cuts base salaries and the size of the ensemble but allows them to resume their season May 9. … Both sides felt pressure to salvage the remaining 14 concerts of the season after the cancellation of approximately 80 concerts.”
Putting The Entertainment-Industrial Complex In Perspective
“Whether you call it indie capitalism or an indiepocalypse or something else, there’s clearly a not-only-Big moment happening in our economy right now — especially when it comes to the entertainment-industrial complex. The traditional, big organizational layer of intermediaries that help filter, fund, and cultivate talent to create big hits is changing … and it’s changing quickly.”
A Persistent Quest To Retrieve A Family’s Nazi-Looted Art
“The Rosenberg cache represents just a tiny part of what some experts say are roughly 100,000 pieces — worth perhaps $10 billion — still missing from Nazi plundering, but few victims have been as unyielding, or as successful, as this family in reconstituting their cultural legacy.”
Artist’s Repurposing Of Photos Is Not Copyright Violation: Court
“Painter and photographer Richard Prince, whose works have sold for millions of dollars, did not violate copyrights with most of the paintings and collages he based on a photographer’s published works, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday in a case closely watched within the art community.”
150,000 Petitioners Ask UK Prime Minister To Tax Amazon
“Supported by Stephen Fry, Margaret Hodge and Charlie Higson, independent booksellers Frances and Keith Smith delivered a petition calling on David Cameron to take ‘decisive action [to] make Amazon pay its fair share of UK corporation tax’ to Downing Street on 24 April.”
Ex-Employee At Atlanta’s Woodruff Arts Center Pleads Guilty To Embezzlement
“[Ralph] Clark started working at the Woodruff Arts Center in 2004 as a heating and air conditioning mechanic. By the time he left, eight years later, he had risen through the ranks and embezzled $1.1 million from the city’s largest cultural organization.”
Richie Havens, 72, Folk Musician And Icon Of Woodstock
“From the beginning, when he played Village folk clubs in the mid-Sixties, Havens stood out due to more than just his imposing height (he was six-and-a-half feet tall) and his ethnicity (African-American in a largely white folk scene). He played his acoustic guitar with an open tuning and in a fervent, rhythmic style, and he sang in a sonorous, gravel-road voice that connected folk, blues and gospel.”
Rising Tide Of Art (Finally) Lifts Prices For Women’s Work
“‘Remember “plastics” from ‘”The Graduate”? It should be “women,”‘ says Tony Podesta, the Washington lobbyist who is one of a handful of collectors aggressively buying work by women artists.”