“The Painter and the Model was taken in a daylight robbery in June from the state-owned Estacao Pinacoteca museum. Police said an arrested suspect had led them to the engraving, wrapped in a plastic bag and hidden in an attic, apparently in perfect condition.”
Tag: 07.20.08
Louisville Casts Itself In A Tryout Role
Is the Louisville Symphony becoming a latter-day New Haven, Conn. — where Broadway-bound shows routinely came to smooth out kinks before heading for Manhattan? The orchestra recently hoisted a world premiere that was, in effect, an out-of-town preview for subsequent performances.
ABT – A Season That Delivers The Goods (Yet Doesn’t)
Alastair Macaulay comes away from this season’s American Ballet Theatre season strangely unsatisfied. “Is this the spring season that America’s national ballet company should have been giving? Why does Ballet Theater seem to take ballet less seriously than I do?”
A Way To Encourage More Interesting Orchesatral Programming?
“Concerts by orchestras large and small, major and regional, will be presented over nine days. Hall rental costs will be covered by the festival, which will also handle production and marketing. Orchestras will be chosen according to one criterion: the creativity of the programs they propose. Under the umbrella of a Carnegie Hall festival, an orchestra can seize the chance to do something adventurous.”
Philadelphia Creates A Culture Office
Philadelphia yesterday shed its status as the biggest city in the country to lack a cultural affairs office, as Mayor Nutter issued an executive order creating the Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy.
Batman Sets Weekend Of Box Office Records
“The Dark Knight chased Spider-Man 3 from the record books with a $155.3 opening weekend gross. The figure capped three days of eye-popping figures.”
Looking At Art Makes Better Doctors
There are “a growing number of art courses offered to medical students nationwide and aimed at improving their observation and diagnostic skills at a time when doctors are increasingly relying on CT scans, Maris, biopsies, and other technology to do their work, even though it is far more expensive – and sometimes unnecessary to pinpoint illnesses.”
An Art-World Project Runway?
“The hourlong show has been described by the Elves team of Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz as a Project Runway-style competition series that takes on the art world. Aspiring artists compete to produce various styles of artwork (painting, sculpting, etc.), which is then judged by a panel of experts.”