“The Andy Warhol Foundation has reached a settlement with the Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company, ending a case that lasted more than two years. The company agreed to pay the ‘lion’s share’ of the foundation’s legal fees stemming from two lawsuits brought by the collectors Joe Simon and Susan Shaer in 2007.”
Tag: 06.26.13
Drunken One-Night Stands Do Not Make Sense In Much Ado About Nothing
Yet Joss Whedon begins his movie version with one. Gina Dalfonzo makes the case for why that choice was a mistake, the film’s modern setting notwithstanding.
ABT To Premiere New Ratmansky Tempest
“The world premiere of the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky’s take on Shakespeare’s Tempest will open the American Ballet Theater’s first fall season at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.”
New Jersey Symphony Names Its Principal Oboist CEO
“After an ill-fated gamble on an outsider, the New Jersey Symphony has turned to a familiar face for its next leader. …[James] Roe Roe has been the orchestra’s lead oboist (in an acting role) since 2011, and has worked as a freelance musician and an arts administrator in New York.”
Why Do We Pay More Attention To Celebrities?
“It follows that things are much more likely to catch on if they are associated with someone who is well known for one reason or another – even if the association is erroneous, as in the case of those Twain and Einstein misquotations. This raises the question of whether what is said is as important as who said it.”
US Senate Expected To Pass Visa Reform That Will Help Admit Foreign Artists
“Foreign artists seeking US visas stand to benefit from an amendement included in the immigration bill expected to pass the Senate on Thursday.”
The Color Of Music (Or The Color Of Those Who Play It)
Though no one stated it specifically, there was a “black sound” and a “white sound.” To like a “white sound,” or worse, a white musician who “sounded black,” was cultural treason. Without realizing it at the time, this inhibited me on many levels.
Publishers See Huge Growth In Genre E-Books
“There are multiple theories for the genre dominance in digital publishing, including the appeal of anonymity offered by e-reader devices, which don’t display the cover of a potentially embarrassing book for all the world to see.”
Theatre’s New Instant Focus Group
“Thus dial testing, common in politics, television and movies, has now arrived in the theater. Though at this point Ken Davenport is the first to embrace it eagerly for Broadway, the very idea of it is raising questions in the industry about what makes good theater.”
Will Anyone Rescue New York’s South Street Seaport Museum?
The long-shaky institution got a lifeline in October 2011 when its operation was taken over by the Museum of the City of New York, which expanded gallery space and presented 18 exhibitions. Then Sandy flooded the building and ruined its electrical systems. Now MCNY has pulled out, saying the Seaport Museum’s problems are simply more than it can handle.