“Mexican federal prosecutors said Tuesday they are investigating a claim that more than 1,000 items attributed to artist Frida Kahlo were forged. The Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Trust filed a complaint saying signed paintings, notes and drawings featured in two recent art history books are fake, the Attorney General’s Office said.”
Tag: 09.22.09
Furloughs And Salary Cuts For Colorado Symphony’s Players
“Colorado Symphony Orchestra musicians have agreed to a 12.5 percent pay cut and up to four weeks of unpaid leave as the orchestra copes with the economic downturn.”
New Indiana PAC Chooses Songster Michael Feinstein As AD
The Grammy-winning cabaret star and “scholar-collector of classic American popular songs” will reduce his performing schedule to serve as artistic director of the new $147 million Carmel Regional Performing Arts Center in suburban Indianapolis.
Forward To The Past Under Paris Opera’s New Chief
Nicolas Joël opened his first season at the helm of the company with Gounod’s dimly remembered Mireille. “Starting the new era with a half-forgotten, 19th-century opera in a period-style production is, of course, not an innocent coincidence. It’s an explicit break with the policy of Joël’s predecessor, Gérard Mortier, who favored overbearing directors and willful reinterpretations.”
Bolshoi Finds A Music Director Just In Time For Opening Night
“A few hours before raising the curtain on its 234th season, Russia’s famed Bolshoi Theatre revealed the latest addition to its team: new music director Leonid Desyatnikov.” He’s not an experienced conductor or administrator, but he is the composer behind one of the great artistic scandals of post-Soviet Russia: the opera Rosenthal’s Children.
Spielberg To Do Broadway Musical TV Series?
“DreamWorks TV and Showtime are in the early stages of developing a scripted series that will chronicle the development of an original Broadway musical, from its creative inception through its opening night. The intention is to then mount the tuner on [Broadway] after the series airs.”
A Trendy Dance Contest, With Benefits All Around
“It would be easy to dismiss the Global Dance contest as a gimmick. But simply by offering a prize of £2,000 and the chance to perform in the theatre’s 2010 Sampled programme, [Sadler’s] Wells has arguably come up with a fabulous scheme for flagging up its own cool credentials – and, more importantly, for diverting punters to its own website.”
What’s Wrong With Bringing Suggested Admission To UK
The mayor of London is promoting the idea of museums imposing US-style suggested admission prices — a plan too “woolly” to work. “A more honest way forward would be to move museums into a ‘National Trust’ arrangement, with charges for one-off visits but also annual or lifetime passes to entice people to return frequently.”
Explaining Akram Khan
“Bengali boy from south London learns Indian dance, tours with a British theatre director based in France, studies in Brussels, then goes global. Now the world’s his oyster.”
The Male Gaze, Redirected
“In recent years, the increasing frankness of breast cancer PSAs has been a bright spot of adult sensibility in what is Americans’ generally neurotic relationship to the female anatomy.” New public-service spots, most notably one called “Save the Boobs,” “leverage male lechery to an astonishing degree.”