“A major loan exhibition of Bernini’s sculptures, paintings and drawings that is also described as the first full viewing of this artist’s portrait busts is headed for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles this summer. Including major loans from Italian museums, the exhibition underlines the benefits gained by the Getty from its recent handover of several dozen Greek antiquities.”
Tag: 02.02.08
One Singular Profit-Sharing Arrangement
“The dancers and actors who participated in the 1974 recordings and workshops that were the foundation of A Chorus Line have been granted a financial interest in the current Broadway revival… The arrangement brings to a close 16 months of negotiations.”
Because That’s Where They Keep The Money
New York is America’s business center, its temple of capitalism. So what better place to open a Museum of American Finance? “And if our city’s status and the currency that backs it are more contested than they once were, that only makes the enterprise more urgently intriguing.”
“Based On True Story” Leaves An Author Vulnerable (And The Reader?)
“If nothing else, the Ishmael Beah affair illustrates just how high a premium we are inclined to place on the facts when the book is being sold to us as the truth and nothing but. That absolute claim is the strongest selling point for any work of nonfiction, yet it may prove an achilles heel.”