“Turkish authorities are reported to have filed a request with the British Home Office to have the Duchess [of York] questioned about her filming of the documentary to obtain evidence on allegations that she broke Turkish privacy laws when she and her daughter Eugenie shot the film undercover last year.”
Tag: 09.17.09
Regina Spektor Pens A Musical
“The Russian-born Spektor, whose latest alt-rock album ‘Far’ was released earlier this year, currently is writing the music for the show, collaborating with playwright Tina Landau, whose one-act play ‘Beauty’ provides the inspiration for the production.”
Long Beach Slashes $400,000 From Art Museum’s Funding
The city budget “gives the [Long Beach Museum of Art] $169,000, down from $569,000 the previous year.” In part, the cut “was spurred by officials’ ire at having to pay off a $3.06-million bond that museum leaders had promised years ago to cover but then failed to when their fund-raising campaign fizzled.”
Google, Settlement Partners Ordered To Address Concerns
“Google Inc. and a group of authors and publishers are talking to the Justice Department about modifications” to the Google books settlement. The judge in the case “yesterday ordered Google and the other parties to the settlement to respond to an outpouring of viewpoints questioning the plan to create a digital book library.”
Boston Art Dealers Get Boost From Thriving Film Industry
“As the film industry booms in Massachusetts, it’s creating a ripple effect across many businesses. Some come readily to mind, such as caterers and hotels. But others are more obscure such as galleries and antique shops that lease or sell paintings, maps, and photographs” to be used as props.
Studio Theatre Founder Zinoman Retiring After 35 Years
The departure next year of artistic director Joy Zinoman “augurs one of the most significant changes in years at the top of a Washington performing arts organization.” It “is at once a stunning development, and the first sign that turnover at other major companies is inevitable.”
Recovery Watch: Damien Hirst Values Have Bounced Back
“Auction estimates — if not realized prices” for Hirst’s work “– are similar to those seen at Sotheby’s event last September, which raised the most money for a single-artist auction. … An increase in estimates shows some confidence returning to the market after contemporary-art prices dropped as much as 30 to 50 percent this year, said dealers.”
August Wilson Center for African American Culture Opens In Pittsburgh
“The new $39.5 million center, … named after the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, includes a 486-seat theater, two gallery spaces, a multi-purpose room and a flexible hall for educational programs.”
Thanks To Real Estate Slump, New York Gets An Art Park
On Friday, “a new 37,000-square-foot outdoor exhibition and performance space will open in Lower Manhattan. … Appropriately – given that the lot is on loan for about three years from developers who had hoped to build there by now – the project will be called LentSpace.”
Folksinger Mary Travers, Partner Of Peter And Paul, Dead At 72
She “brought a powerful voice and an unfeigned urgency to music that resonated with mainstream listeners. With her straight blond hair and willowy figure and two bearded guitar players by her side, she looked exactly like what she was, a Greenwich Villager directly from the clubs and the coffeehouses that nourished the folk-music revival.”