Category: today’s top story

Nevada OSHA issued six citations, totaling more than $25,000, following an investigation into the 94-foot fall of Sarah Guillot-Guyard during a performance of Ka in Las Vegas. The citations could open the door to a civil suit by Guillot-Guyard’s family.

“There is much to celebrate: South Broad Street has showcased some of the region’s – and the nation’s – finest artistic enterprises, and has helped the city achieve wide recognition as a cultural center. … But the Avenue also has faced well-documented problems – some financial, some managerial, some related to large societal and cultural trends.”

Nikolai Tsiskaridze, who was terminated in June after more than a year of publicly campaigning for his bosses to be fired and himself to replace them (and who suggested that the acid attack on Sergei Filin was staged), has been appointed rector of St. Petersburg’s Vaganova Academy, founded in 1738 and considered one of the two or three best ballet schools in the world.

“The Egyptian broadcaster CBC has distanced itself from its star satirist, Bassem Youssef, after he criticised both the army-backed government and the Islamist regime it succeeded in the first episode of his long-delayed new series.”

“Even as the art world marvels at China’s booming market, a six-month review by The New York Times found that many of the sales — transactions reported to have produced as much as a third of the country’s auction revenue in recent years — did not actually take place.”

“This month, France’s lower house of parliament passed a bill prohibiting Amazon from offering both a 5 percent discount on its books and free delivery, a combination the French culture minister likened to dumping.”

“The career of Anthony Caro, who has died aged 89, was so enduring and substantial that it long seemed part of our permanent British art landscape.”

“Three Romanians have pleaded guilty to stealing seven paintings, including works by Picasso, Monet and Matisse, from a Dutch museum in a daring daytime raid that shocked the art world.”

“David Franklin, who joined the Cleveland Museum of Art as its ninth director a little over three years ago, has resigned his post, effective immediately, … [saying] that he’s is proud of the museum’s accomplishments during his tenure, but has ‘concluded that it’s time to spend more time on research and writing’.”

Nico Muhly, whose “Two Boys” opens at the Met on Monday: “I’ll send a million emails and call a million people and type something stupid on my phone, but dispatching a blog post isn’t about enlisting hundreds of fucking people. This opera calls upon almost a thousand people.”