“Glyndebourne has become as much an event on the social and business calendar as an opera festival. In a typically English way, much gentle wheeling and dealing takes place under the spreading oaks during the 80-minute dinner and picnic interval. Has the festival gotten too elite?”
Tag: 05.16.08
Lincoln Center makes Progress on Rebuild
“New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has raised two-thirds of its $1.2 billion renovation cost and is confident the rest will be found in time for the project’s completion at the end of 2010.”
SFMoMA Chooses New Curator
“The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has appointed Gary Garrels senior curator of painting and sculpture. As of Sept. 1 he will replace Madeleine Grynsztejn, who left SFMOMA earlier this year to become director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.”
Hollywood Souring On “Faith-based” Movies
“Faith-based campaigns have failed to deliver big numbers even for such recent Christian-themed films as “The Nativity Story” (2006, $38 million) or “Facing the Giants” (2006, $10 million). For that reason, several marketing executives say they are shying away from faith-specific outreach.”
National Gallery Drops, Breaks Renaissance Painting
“A 500-year-old panel painting by Domenico Beccafumi of Marcia was broken in half, in one of the most serious handling accidents known to have occurred in a UK museum in living memory. This happened during deinstallation of the “Renaissance Siena” exhibition, which closed on 13 January.”
Arts Council To Stop Funding Columbus Symphony
“Earlier this week, the grants committee of the Greater Columbus Arts Council recommended no longer giving money to the symphony, which last year received $261,417. ‘We shouldn’t be giving operational support to an organization that’s not going to be here after June 1’.”
Canterbury Cathedral Is Falling Down
It is not yet quite as broken down as London Bridge, not yet the subject of a nursery rhyme, but the roof is leaking, the masonry crumbling and, to put it in the human terms of an old man with a prostate problem and an arthritic spine, it needs more than a strategic bucket and a zimmer frame to keep it going.
US Senate Votes To Overturn New FCC Media Ownership Rules
“Senators, on a voice vote, approved a resolution nullifying the new, relaxed ownership rules adopted in December by the Federal Communications Commission. The vote moved lawmakers a step closer toward overturning the new FCC rule.”
GAO Wants Smithsonian To Measure Reforms
“The Government Accountability Office recommended yesterday that the Smithsonian Board of Regents develop ways to critique its own policies and institute a plan to discipline its members if they neglect their duties.”