The St. Louis Symphony has announced a three year deal under which Wachovia Securities will become the orchestra’s primary season sponsor. The hope is that the Wachovia money will hep the SLSO dig out from under its significant debt. “Despite assorted cost-saving measures, the orchestra posted a $3.4 million deficit in fiscal 2007.”
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Aussie Art Magazine’s Nude Child Cover Rings Up Fresh Outrage
“In the latest row over the depiction of nude children, Morris Lemma and the state Opposition Leader, Barry O’Farrell, are so offended by the nude pictures of a young girl they want the magazine that published them stripped of federal funding. But the girl says the picture is her favourite image and still hangs in the house.”
Naked Girl On Aussie Art Magazine Causes Furor
“According to the editor of Art Monthly, its latest cover is an effort to “restore dignity” to the discourse about the artistic portrayal of children. To its critics, including the Australin Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, it is “disgusting”. What it has achieved is to bring to the boil a simmering row over the difference between art and pornography in a country with a long tradition of censorship.”