It all started last month when the editor of the magazine The Monthly, John van Tiggelen, sent an e-mail (promptly leaked) to his predecessor – twentysomething whiz-kid Ben Naparstek, who had been recruited to lead the nationwide magazine insert Good Weekend – calling Naparstek a “f*cking dalek” who steals article ideas, poaches writers and underpays female contributors.
Tag: 02.28.13
Why They’re Turning Against Nabokov
“Thirty-six years after his death and twenty-two years after the fall of the Soviet Union with all its khudsovets, Vladimir Nabokov is, once again, controversial.”
Proposed Russian Law Could Bankrupt Small Concert Promoters
“A bill introduced earlier this month to the Russian State Duma to oblige concert organizers to obtain a special license and a 150-million-ruble ($4.9 million) bank guarantee has caused a commotion in the concert market.” Says one promoter, “It will impoverish the capital’s cultural life and completely destroy it in the regions. There will be no small clubs or young musicians.”
MacArthur Fellow Liz Lerman Launches Multi-Disciplinary National Civil War Project
The Baltimore-based choreographer, “partnered with the University of Maryland, Center Stage and Harvard University, among others, for the project, which launches Thursday with a presentation in Washington and continues with numerous events through 2015. It aims to raise questions about the war and its repercussions.”
Canada’s National Gallery Cuts 29 Positions
Those cut “were graphic designers, IT and web specialists, and some worked in registration and exhibitions. The gallery also announced it was creating seven new jobs to help bring in revenue and work in visitor engagement.”
Iconic Berlin Artwork Threatened By Developers
“The painted mural of former Soviet and East German leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Eric Honecker in a passionate clinch is one of the star attractions of the East Side Gallery, the longest-remaining stretch of Berlin Wall and the second-most visited site in Berlin.”
Critics Charge Iceland’s Porn Ban Threatens Freedom
“This level of government surveillance directly conflicts with the idea of a free society.”
Vienna Philharmonic To Answer Nazi Charges
“The complete reports of the historians are to be posted on the orchestra’s Web site on March 12, the 75th anniversary of the Austrian Anschluss.”
Kronos Quartet Takes On New Cellist
“A new cellist, USC graduate Sunny Jungin Yang will replace Jeffrey Zeigler, who is leaving Kronos to pursue solo projects and will join the faculty of Mannes College the New School for Music in New York.”
Nobel Laureate Mo Yan To Critics: You’re Just Jealous
“Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel prize for literature, has taken on the critics who have dismissed him for being too close to the Chinese government, saying they envy him the award and are distorting the meaning of his work.”