The museum’s board of overseers issued a statement objecting to the closing, saying it would be “a breach of faith” with its founders and with supporters who have “sustained the museum for almost 50 years based on agreements and understandings that the Rose Art Museum would be maintained on the Brandeis campus in perpetuity.”
Tag: 02.05.09
How TV Ads Are Adapting To The Recession
Television advertising’s altered mood is a little like the changes in fall foliage; just as autumn leaves turn earlier and more intensely in Vermont, the most direct and bleakest ads cluster around morning cable news shows, echoing the latest stock market dips and unemployment figures. They grow gentler and more sparse around daytime soap operas and talk shows. By prime time, the messages are oblique.
Copyright Reform? Not Likely As Obama Appoints Copyright Advocates
President Obama is continuing to fill the senior ranks of the U.S. Department of Justice with the copyright industry’s favorite lawyers.
Minneapolis Newspaper Editor Responds To Theatre’s Review Criticism
“She doesn’t like the reviews — and I’m not saying she doesn’t like them because they’re too negative. She thinks they’re dumb, or she’s disdainful of them. It really comes across that she wishes she was a working journalist– and I, of course, am so very glad she is not, after reading her weakly argued piece.”
Digital Piracy Gets Ahead Of Studios
Because of widely available broadband access and a new wave of streaming sites, it has become surprisingly easy to watch pirated video online — a troubling development for entertainment executives and copyright lawyers.
Arts Priorities – More Funding? A Secretary Of The Arts?
“While increasing the NEA budget will guarantee economic growth in the arts, unless the NEA can be made independent politically and fiscally, it is unlikely that higher funding levels will be sustainable. Only a genuine federal endowment for the arts stands a chance at long-term success.”
Florida Grand Opera Director To Step Down
“Stewart Robertson as the company’s most prominent musician, has been criticized for weak artistic leadership, as evident in inconsistent casting, the disastrous mounting of the comically bad operetta Szulamit in 2004, and the deteriorating quality of the company’s orchestra, which led to a contractor change at the end of last season.”
Brandeis President Apologizes For Handling Of Rose Museum Affair
In a letter published in The Boston Globe, Jehuda Reinharz writes, “[my] statements gave the misleading impression that we were selling the entire collection immediately, which is not true.” He says “The Museum will remain open, but… it will be more fully integrated into the University’s central educational mission” and that some artworks may be sold “if necessary.”
Violette Verdy Elevated To France’s Legion of Honor
President Sarkozy has named Verdy, the 75-year-old former star of ABT and NYCB and the first woman to serve as artistic director of the Paris Opera Ballet, a Chevalier de l’Ordre du Légion d’Honneur, the nation’s highest award.
The Drummer As Outsider
“Drummers live on their own planet. Anyone needing further understanding should only look to hockey. In hockey, it’s the goalie that differs. Having to wearing a painted mask is just the beginning of it.” A new art exhibit examines the mythology of the drummer.