Does theatre make you happy?
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth | Published 2014-05-08
Revenge On Germany: Bern Museum To Get Gurlitt’s Trove
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-05-08
The Struggle of Creative Professionals, and a Gay Bookstore Down
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-05-08
Italian reports: Pereira is safe at La Scala but on a yellow card
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-05-08
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“[The furor over his remarks last fall] is an example of misquotation and actually quite a grotesque distortion from what I was saying. … I do understand that people who read it as it was reported were upset and even offended, but what I was actually saying was totally different. I was never against women conductors at all.”
“They charge that the foundation ignored Peggy Guggenheim’s last wish for the collection, which consists mainly of Cubist, Surrealist and abstract postwar art: that it be displayed in the palazzo in its entirety and without additions.” More generally, they’re furious over the expansionist, corporate character of the foundation’s current activities.
“In a striking about-face, the New York Public Library has abandoned its much-disputed renovation plan to turn part of its research flagship on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street into a circulating library and instead will refurbish the nearby Mid-Manhattan Library, several library trustees said.”
