“Having already lost a place it had been promised at ground zero, the Signature Theater Company now finds its downtown plans scuttled again: It will not relocate, as planned, to Fiterman Hall on West Broadway. This Off Broadway company, whose current lease on West 42nd Street expires in 2011, was encouraged by the city last spring to set its sights on Fiterman Hall… But the project has proved too complicated and costly, people involved say, so the city is helping the theater look for other sites.”
Tag: 08.08.07
Is Pinault’s Art Worthy Of A Museum?
“The billionaire collector Francois Pinault is showing off his wealth in Venice,” in the form of a new museum under construction on the Grand Canal, which will house Pinault’s vast contemporary art collection. But Michael Glover says that the quality of Pinault’s holdings is up for debate.
Art That Puts Its Viewers First
Two art festivals of very different levels of national fame are underway in Scotland at the moment, and Ruth Wishart says that each is proving that it is possible to draw diverse and intelligent crowds to see high art without dumbing down the product.