“Management did not fully explain many of the important details of the proposal to the mayor, and in some cases, they omitted significant specifics all together,” said the chair of the musicians’ negotiating committee.
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Maverick Russian Star Natalia Osipova Joins Britain’s Royal Ballet
“The 26-year-old Moscow ballerina, who made her name as a wunderkind in the Bolshoi Ballet until she quit two years ago, signed a contract last month but held back the news until the end of the London tour of her current company, the Mikhailovsky Ballet”
UK Refuses To Release Renaissance Manuscript Purchased By Getty
“A valuable 15th century Flemish manuscript acquired by the J.Paul Getty Museum late last year has been placed under an export embargo by British authorities, who hope to keep the object in the United Kingdom.”
The Tourist Equation – Blockbuster Shows Sell
Modern blockbuster planning is less about art and more about a so-called tourism offering where the words “impressionist”, “Monet”, “masterpiece” and “Picasso” spell instant audience. Everything else is a hard sell.
Digging Pablo Neruda (What Really Killed Him?)
“The remains of Chile’s Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda are being exhumed on Monday in a bid to determine the cause of his death after his assistant alleged he was murdered by Gen Augusto Pinochet’s military regime.”