The “biggest modern art auction in the UK in a decade” has brought in £61 million in London. “The total included £6.2m paid for the 1918 painting Garcon a la Veste Bleu by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani.”
Tag: 06.22.04
Breaking Tax Law For Non-Profits?
The US Congress is scrutinizing tax laws that provide breaks for donations to non-profits. Some of the proposed reforms could be onerous. “To deputize the nonprofit community with the responsibility for these inquiries would assign the highly technical and complicated work of determining an appraisal’s accuracy to individuals who are not qualified nor authorized to deal in these matters.”
Where’s The Shock Of The New?
What do the arts need more than anything else? Playwright David Edgar says artists need to provoke and outrage arts institutions. “He argued that the arts in this country had been at their most successful when the spirit of provocation was most alive – as in the late 1960s and early 70s.”
Muddying Maazel At The New York Phil
What was the New York Philharmonic doing with its announcement of an extension of music director Lorin Maazel’s contract, asks Barbara Jepson. Naming three guest conductors during Maazel’s last three years does nothing but muddy the issue of leadership after Maazel’s tenure.