With her husband Eugene, co-founder of Texas Instruments, and for decades after his death, she gave millions to educational, civic, and cultural groups, including virtually every major visual and performing arts institution in Dallas. As recently as last year, she endowed a biennial $150,000 prize for achievement in the arts.
Tag: 05.03.18
Collector Sues Sotheby’s For Selling, And Undervaluing, A Basquiat His Late Wife Owned
“The art masterpiece in question – Flesh and Spirit, a 12-by-12-foot painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat – is just days away from the auction block. It is a prized asset of the estate of [Hubert] Neumann’s wife, Dolores Ormandy Neumann, who died in September 2016, and its potential sale shines a spotlight on what appears to be a nasty family dispute.”
Is The Pompidou Centre Becoming Another Guggenheim, Franchising Itself Hither And Yon?
“With outposts and partnerships either launched or pending in Metz, Málaga, Brussels, the Gulf, Shanghai and possibly Latin America, … the Pompidou’s president, Serge Lasvignes, is boldly steering it into a number of new ventures, which he believes will deepen the Parisian museum’s relationship with artistic centres it might otherwise be unable to reach.”
In British Movie Theatres, Polish Immigrants Are Now A Major Demographic
“Like Bollywood, Polish cinema has flourished” – with some titles even making the weekly top 10 at the box office – “in UK multiplexes rather than arthouses, without any help from the British media. It is only partly true to say that the mainstream press has ignored these releases; what’s more significant is that its attention and approval were never sought in the first place. With Polish now the second most commonly spoken language in England, English-speaking viewers are not part of this particular success story.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.03.18
Off the pedestal
Here’s a phrase from the biography of Beth Bahia Cohen, a violinist who plays our kind of classical music, but who also plays just about every violin-like instrument found anywhere in the world. … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2018-05-03
May 3 Birthdays
This is the birthday of two men who had significant effects on jazz and popular music. Bing Crosby was born on May 3, 1903 in Spokane, Washington, John Lewis seventeen years later … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2018-05-03
4000 Ancient Artifacts Smuggled Into US By Hobby Lobby Are Returned To Iraq,
The event marked the end of to the international investigation of black-market antiquities and the evangelical Green family, the owners of Hobby Lobby and collectors of biblical material who opened the Museum of the Bible in Washington last November. The museum was not involved in the settlement, and the returned objects were not part of the its collection.
Half Of Britain’s Orchestral Musicians Don’t Earn Enough To Live On, Says Musicians’ Union
“Wages have stagnated as funding cuts take hold. Young musicians are particularly affected, with two-fifths of newcomers taking unpaid work in the last year. Forty-four per cent of players told the MU they struggled to make ends meet. And two-thirds of veteran musicians – who’d been playing for more than 30 years – said they’d considered alternative careers.”