“L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art announced Tuesday that it aims to build its endowment to $100 million and has commitments lifting the total above $60 million as the campaign begins. The museum’s investments, which include endowment funds, stood at $23 million early this year.”
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Minnesota Orchestra To Undergo State Audit
“Legislative auditor Jim Nobles says he will examine the use of state funds by the Minnesota Orchestra. A group of 100 state legislators requested the audit March 7 amid concern about the impact of the ongoing lockout of musicians by management.”
Falling In Love WIth Hearing, And Telling, Stories
“You felt real energy there — a stirring in your soul, and you wanted more. Excited to find a kindred consciousness, you wanted to understand how a writer could make you feel that intensity.”
Chinua Achebe, 82, ‘Grandfather Of African Literature’
“His creation of a hybrid that combined oral and literary modes, and his refashioning of the English language to convey Igbo voices and concepts, established a model and an inspiration for other novelists throughout the African continent.”
Bolshoi Theatre To Get Government Audit
“The Audit Chamber said the investigation into the use of public funds had been planned in advance and isn’t linked to the accusations of financial abuse raised by a dancer who was arrested earlier this month on charges of staging an acid attack on the [ballet’s] artistic director Sergei Filin.”
Iraq War, Ten Years On: The Damage To Art And Antiquities
“Major archaeological sites have been looted or left neglected and a generation has been denied access to museums, nearly all of which have been closed. At a time when Iraq is in desperate need of unity, its illustrious past is being forgotten.”
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L.A. MoCA Board Rejects LACMA Merger
“Despite the recent offer from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to acquire the cash-strapped Museum of Contemporary Art, the contemporary museum’s board of trustees says that its members agree that ‘the best future for MOCA would be as an independent institution’.”
FBI Says It Knows Who Committed Gardner Museum Thefts
“In a stunning twist in a case that had frustrated investigators for decades, federal law enforcement officials said today that they had identified the people who stole $500 million worth of masterworks in a daring heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.”
The Fishmonger’s Treasure Trove Of Irish History
“Ms. McCoole is still in Ballina nearly eight years later, still immersed in what is now known as the Jackie Clarke Collection: an astounding treasure of more than 100,000 items that provide an intimate retelling of Ireland’s long struggle to free itself of English rule. Fragile maps and rare newspapers, political posters and editorial cartoons, books, diaries, photographs, films, and even a scrapbook that Clarke began as a boy.”