Following a lump-sum payment by the orchestra of an undisclosed (and presumably donated) amount, a group of lenders led by Bank of America has canceled the existing $80 million mortgage on Schermerhorn Symphony Hall and issued a new mortgage in the amount of $20 million.
Tag: 06.24.13
Architect Henning Larsen, 87
Famed for the deployment of natural light in his designs, Larsen is known for the main municipal library in Malmö Sweden; Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Riyadh; the Harpa concert hall/conference center in Reykjavik; and the 2005 harborfront Copenhagen Opera House – over which his battles with the builder and funder of the project, shipping magnate Mærsk McKinney Møller, became famous.
Director Of Perm’s New Contemporary Art Museum Fired
“The Russian contemporary art impresario Marat Guelman has been fired as the director of the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, which he created in 2008 as part of a project to turn the drab military-industrial Soviet city into a modern art center like Bilbao.” At issue are the finances of a summer arts festival and several controversial exhibitions, including one critical of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
Why Venice Should Charge Every Tourist Who Enters €30
Anna Somers Cocks: “The interviewer at the BBC World Service clearly thought that this was a toff’s attempt to keep out the riff-raff when it is nothing of the sort, so … here are the reasons why I think charging would be good for everyone, rich and poor, Venetians and non-Venetians, as well as the mayor himself and the preservation of the city.”
Ai Weiwei’s First Rock Album Has Arrived
“The visual artist-cum-media juggernaut known as Ai Weiwei hurtles forward with the release of his new album, The Divine Comedy. The six-track album, released Saturday, is Ai’s first major attempt at pop music and features the heavy-metal single ‘Dumbass’, which was first released last month.”
Royal Shakespeare Company To Tweet Voltaire’s Candide
“The 140-character messages will begin this Wednesday, continuing until August 29, when Mark Ravenhill’s play – also called Candide – receives its premiere at the RSC’s Swan theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.”
Sure You Can Keep Your Data More Secure. But At The Expense Of…
“The unpopularity of personal data encryption isn’t a problem in itself but a symptom of a bigger issue: The increasingly social, distributed and proscriptive nature of computing means that if you want to use the latest software and services you simply cannot keep your personal data to yourself.”
Theatre Producers Strain To Offer More Than Just The Show
“Entrepreneurial producers are staging musicals that offer atmospherics and alcohol in hopes of attracting a new A-list crowd to fill more theater seats.”
What The Choice Of Seattle Opera’s New Director Says About The Company
The unconventional and risky choice was a surprise in many ways.
You Know What Really Leads To Creativity? Mistakes, Bad Planning, And Delusion
Malcolm Gladwell: “Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened. … Hence, the only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it to ourselves as more routine, simple, undemanding of genuine creativity than it will turn out to be.”