“Under the agreement…, the city will give SFMOMA the existing fire station on Howard Street. In exchange, the museum will build the city a state-of-the-art fire station on Folsom Street, a deal that essentially translates to a $10 million gift from museum leadership to San Francisco, the mayor’s office said.”
Tag: 02.22.10
Gardner Museum Had A Strong Financial Finish To 2009
“The renowned art museum in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood said its investment portfolio closed out the year valued at $161.6 million — some 53 percent higher than at the end of June, the close of its last fiscal year.”
LA Times Names Book Prize Finalists; Eggers Gets Honor
Tracy Kidder, T.R. Reid and Kate Walbert are among the finalists. Graphic novels will compete in a category of their own for the first time this year, while “the LA Times will present its first Innovators Award to author and publisher Dave Eggers for his multifaceted, spirited commitment to literature.”
European Chain Refuses To Show Disney’s 3-D Alice
“The move is in response to the Disney studio’s plan to reduce the period in which it can be shown only in cinemas from the standard 17 weeks. The plan would allow Disney to release the film on DVD at the end of May,” which the Odeon chain said “would ‘set a new benchmark, leading to a 12-week window becoming rapidly standard’.”
Loudon Wainwright III Sings About Paul Krugman
Yep, the song is called “The Krugman Blues.”
Tories, Your Arts Plan Won’t Fly
Michael Billington: Jeremy Hunt’s “proposals for the arts, under a putative Tory government, leave me cold. They may look plausible on paper but they don’t stand up to close examination. First, there is the little matter of history.”
Shadow Culture Secretary Defends Tories’ Arts Manifesto
Jeremy Hunt’s two-year “charm offensive reaches its climax today – with the publication of the Conservatives’ arts manifesto. … So what of the contents of the Tory arts manifesto? In reality, the stated arts policies of all three major parties are strikingly close.”
New Software Allows Professors To Rewrite E-Textbooks
“While many publishers have offered customized print textbooks for years — allowing instructors to reorder chapters or insert third-party content from other publications or their own writing — [Macmillan’s] DynamicBooks gives instructors the power to alter individual sentences and paragraphs without consulting the original authors or publisher.”
Networks Resist Apple’s Effort To Halve Price Of TV Shows
“Apple wants to ignite TV show sales [on iTunes], especially as it prepares to introduce the iPad tablet computer next month. But its proposals to lower prices across the board are being met by skepticism from the major networks,” which “are wary of selling shows for less” and “of harming their far more lucrative deals with affiliates and cable distributors.”
FCC Launches Investigation Of Fox’s Our Little Genius
The parent’s complaint that triggered the probe “raises questions about the legitimacy of the breathless-and-bright-light game show competitions that populate the prime-time television landscape. The allegations … recall the quiz show scandals of the 1950s when TV executives fixed the outcomes of ‘Twenty One’ and ‘The $64,000 Question.'”