“Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra musicians and librarians unanimously rejected a new contract offer, suggesting they might not easily accept the same deep pay cuts seen at major orchestras around the country.”
Tag: 09.12.09
Why Do People Go To Museums? A Study Says…
The top reason was either “interest in the artists” or “to see the artworks in the original.” More interesting were the second-most-frequent responses: At the modern art museum, patrons listed “the pleasure they feel during their visit,” while at the ancient art museum, they chose “the desire for cultural enrichment.”
A Bleak Outlook For British Columbia Arts Funding
“Last week’s budget projected $2.25-million in arts funding for 2010-11, down from $19.5-million in 2008-09. And days before the budget came down, late on a Friday afternoon now dubbed Black Friday by arts organizations, groups were informed by e-mail that the funding they were expecting through community gaming grants – money the province makes from gambling revenues – would be denied.”
Got A Thousand Years? Have I Got The Music For You
“The Longplayer is a 1,000-year-long composition by Jem Finer and is played out by computer at several public listening posts around the world. It began playing on 31 December 1999 and will continue – without repetition – until the last moment of 2999.”
The Famous Buildings We Think We Know
For instance: “The Parthenon was a Christian church, Roman and then Orthodox, longer than it was a pagan temple; and all this before it became a mosque, a gunpowder store and, in the 19th century, the chaste monument and tourist magnet we know, or think we know, so well today.”
Glenn Beck And Michelle Malkin: Right-Wing Polemicists Or Postmodern Litterateurs?
“Having spent the past two weeks in what I might call a spiritual communion with these authors, I can assure you that [their] texts are not the psychotic, fact-challenged rants of the mad, but carefully crafted metafictions in which the mundane terrors of cultural dislocation are recast as riveting epics of paranoia. As such, they fit into a long literary tradition.”
Sculpting The Unbearable Lightness Of Silver And Gold
Artist Rita Grosse-Ruyken turns precious metals into such delicate works as Rays of Light, a solid-gold bowl less than one millimeter thick that “undulates with every sound and movement of the air” and The Silver Cord, in which “she cast, forged and hand-pulled refined silver into a diaphanous thread that she then wove into a [21-meter-long] quasi-transparent spatial structure.”
USC’s Thornton School Of Music Gets Some Big 125th Birthday Gifts
The largest present is a $1.25 million donation to a scholarship fund for string students. There are also two gifts of $125,000, one of them to kick off Thornton’s 125th Anniversary Fund Campaign, as well as the donation of a Steinway piano once owned by Jascha Heifetz.
Films From Israel, Iran Take Honors At Venice Film Festival
Lebanon, an Israeli film about the 1982 invasion shot largely from inside a tank, received the Golden Lion from a jury headed by director Ang Lee. Iranian film artist Shirin Neshat was named best director for her Women Without Men, and Turkish-German director Fatih Akin took the Special Jury Prize.
Annie Leibovitz Gets A Reprieve From Creditors
“In a 13th-hour agreement on Friday, the photographer … avoided having to give up her homes and her artistic property to the finance company that had lent her $24 million. But all she may have won is time.”