This week Dallas’ Meyerson Hall – home to the Dallas Symphony – is going to be transformed into a giant billboard. The IM Pei-designed building will be bathed in projected-light advertisements for a car-maker and publisher. “The projections will emblazon the symphony hall’s north walls facing Woodall Rodgers Freeway with intricate, abstract designs reminiscent of computers, in a tribute to Bill Joy, Internet wizard, Sun Microsystems co-founder and another of the Audi 8.”
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Museum Finds Drawings In Its Attic
The Emanuel Vigeland Museum in Osler has hundreds more Emanuel Vigelands than it thought it had. This week electricians who ventured into the museum’s attic for some repair work discovered several hundred sketches signed by Vigeland. The museum has no idea how they got there.
Dance Lives In Aspen Santa Fe
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, founded in 1996, is the real thing, writes Anna Kisselgoff. “The company has 12 engaging and very good dancers, two ambitious and smart directors who come out of the Joffrey Ballet organization, and the obvious enthusiasm of wealthy board members in Colorado and New Mexico.”
Does UK Arts Policy Value The Right Things?
“There are many in the arts world who believe that the government’s obsession with education and diversity has actually obscured what artists aim to do – produce wonderful work. But are “access” and “excellence” mutually exclusive? Are there too many strings attached to arts funding? Has the government been too utilitarian in its view of the arts, valuing its economic and social by-products, from tourism promotion to crime reduction, over its intrinsic worth?” England’s arts ministers take on the questions.
When Benefactors Default (What Should Happen?)
Recently the Metropolitan Opera took the unusual step of prying off a donor’s name from its building when the promised gift failed to arrive. So “what can be done when donors can’t meet commitments? Nonprofits can bring lawsuits to force donors to pay up, but seldom do so. Lawsuits are unproductive if the donor does not have the funds and usually spell public relations disaster for both parties. The public, off-with-his-head (or in Vilar’s case, off-with-his-name-plaque) approach may be the last, necessary resort in some cases, but it’s not likely to win future support from the donor if his fortunes recover. It also may have a chilling effect on prospective donors.
Ossuary Isn’t Fake Experts Say
Several experts have contested claims that the James ossuary is a fake. “Several paleographic, geological and linguistic experts previously examined the box and saw nothing suspicious. ‘They all may be mistaken, I recognize that, and if it’s a forgery, I want the forger put in jail. But we’re not there yet by any means’.”
Library Of Congress Buys $10 Million Map
The Library of Congress has bought the “Waldseemuller world map of 1507, a cartographic treasure and the first known document to call a land mass America. The old and rare chart is also the first to depict two oceans instead of one. The price was $10 million.”
Lincoln Center In Search Of A Plan
What’s to become of Lincoln Center now the New York Philharmonic plans on leaving for Carnegie? The planning is complicated. Center officials even considered turning Avery Fisher Hall into an opera house in hopes of enticing New York City Opera to stay…