The Tate Museum and Washington DC’s National Gallery were both in the hunt to buy Turner’s masterpiece, The Dark Rigi. But both were outmaneuvered by a crafty London dealer…
Tag: 09.14.06
Seattle Art Museum Agrees To Public Disclosure
The Seattle Art Museum considers a reporter’s suggestion that deaccessioning records be made public and agrees. “It’s never come up as an issue before. We want to be open and perfectly honest, and we try to be transparent as times change. I had to think it through, but it makes perfect sense.”
Conducting Comp Has Its First Female Winner
The Sir Georg Solti International Conductors’ Competition is only four years old, but it has already become one of the top conducting awards in the world. This year, it’s also making a bit of history, handing out its top prize to a woman for the first time: 31-year-old Shi-Yeon Sung of South Korea “receives a €15,000 prize and a concert date with the Frankfurt Museum Orchestra and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.”