“Arts organisations are using executive search because the work is specialised; and finding an artistic director (or a multi-skilled chief executive) is not something they do every day. And the work can be done confidentially at one remove, away from the gossip that swirls around such appointments.”
Tag: 03.20.12
Canadian Government Says No Bailout For Vancouver Playhouse
“They’ve been bailed out already, the City of Vancouver gave them $1-million. It didn’t work,” James Moore told The Globe and Mail on Monday. “They tried fundraising. They didn’t get the kind of financial support that they were hoping for. It’s just really disappointing and sad.”
Two Of France’s Finest Families Fight Over Missing Monet
“More than 70 years after it was plundered by the Nazis, a missing painting by Monet that depicts the shimmering blue rapids of the Creuse River has pitted two of the wealthiest and most prominent families in France against each other.”
Is This The Weirdest-Ever Idea For A Ballet?
“Sir Robert Helpmann’s first work for the fledgling Australian Ballet, in 1964, was inspired by a dream in which he saw a naked Katharine Hepburn on a dais surrounded by lyrebirds.”