Covent Garden says it will “dedicate a whole day in support of Tickets For Troops, a charity that wants to mark the contribution of those who have served or are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan by organising free tickets to big sporting and cultural events.” Numerous sports organizations have joined the effort, but the ROH is the first big arts institution to do so.
Tag: 01.11.10
Will This Economy Force American Museums’ Reinvention?
“With financial windfalls no longer papering over systemic problems, museums are considering moves that were unthinkable, or just unnecessary, in frothier years. Behaviour modification may be the silver lining of this crisis. The result may be museums better equipped to confront 21st-century realities.”
Another Group That Really Ticked Nixon Off: Modernists
At the end of a memo to his chief of staff, in which he sneered at “those who are on the modern art and music kick,” the 37th president added: “P.S., I also want a check made with regard to the incredibly atrocious modern art that has been scattered around the embassies of the world.”
On Jeffrey Deitch’s MOCA Agenda: Hitting Up Past Clients
“Having sold them art, he’ll try to sell them on giving large sums of money to MOCA, in hopes of delivering the museum from what he describes as an ‘austerity budget’ that can’t support a program of exhibitions commensurate with its reputation….”
British Museum Won’t Lend Cyrus Cylinder To Iran Just Yet
“On Jan. 5, inscriptions similar to the Cylinder’s were found on two pieces of cuneiform tablets from Babylonia in the museum’s collections. The pieces will be studied to shed light on the Cylinder’s ‘missing’ or ‘obscure’ passages, the museum said, and presented at a London workshop involving Iranian colleagues.”
New York Art Dealer Jeffrey Deitch To Head LA MOCA
“Deitch, 57, founded his gallery, Deitch Projects LLC, in 1996 and operates from three spaces, two in SoHo and another in Long Island City. He plays a P.T. Barnum role, providing funds, vision and support to young artists including Tauba Auerbach, Kehinde Wiley and Kristin Baker.”
NBC Says It Will Lose Money On Olympics
“NBC paid $820 million for the rights to televise the Winter Games. That compares to the $613 million paid for the rights to televise the Olympics in Turin, Italy, in 2006. Ebersol said it will be the first time NBC has lost money on the games since he began producing the telecasts from Barcelona in 1992.”
La Scala Musicians Protest Working Conditions
La Scala opera house says some performers and musicians appeared in casual street clothes for the last performance of “Carmen,” conducted by Daniel Barenboim, in a labor protest.