“At 1:15 p.m., three groups of 100 students sent wishes for a peaceful G-20 Summit through simultaneous, surprise performances — or flash mobs — and then dispersed 3 minutes later.” The dancers wore “matching orange peace sign T-shirts.”
Tag: 09.22.09
‘Lazy Sexism’ Excluded Female Authors From Collection
“The British Fantasy Society has now apologised for the omission” of women from its volume of interviews with horror fiction authors. The society’s chair said it was “disgustingly simple for a man not to notice these things, a blindness to the importance of correct gender representation that I feel embarrassed to have fallen into.”
Editorial: Tax Targeted To Arts Patrons Is Ill-Conceived
“It’s not clear whether charging an extra $1.28 would deter the average patron from visiting the Philadelphia Museum of Art – probably not. But many arts organizations are teetering on the edge financially, after a sharp decline in private donations. For some, an increase in ticket prices could become the breaking point.”
Pennsylvania Arts Leaders Vow To Fight New Sales Tax
“Just two days after waking to news that the proposed Pennsylvania budget agreement, announced late Friday in Harrisburg, would extend sales taxes to arts and cultural performances and venues – but not to movies or sports events – arts officials said they would blitz lawmakers in a last-ditch effort to stop the tax.”
Did Polaroid Own The Photos In Its Collection?
“[T]he Polaroid Collection has 16,000 prints by 120 recognized masters,” among them Ansel Adams, Phillipe Halsman, Mary Ellen Mark, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Rauschenberg, Inge Morath, and Margaret Bourke-White. Sotheby’s is to auction 1,300 prints from the collection next spring — though some artists and former employees say Polaroid never owned them.
Retired Now, Harpist Ann Hobson Pilot Takes A Victory Lap
“‘No one thinks of Ann Hobson Pilot as an African-American harp player,’ says Mark Volpe, the BSO’s managing director. ‘They think of her as the great harp player of her time.’ The BSO is making that point by featuring Hobson Pilot in [an unprecedented series of] programs to celebrate her recent retirement.”
WGBH Seeks To Buy Boston Classical Music Station
“Boston public broadcaster WGBH made a bid yesterday to buy classical radio station WCRB, a move that could directly challenge rival Boston public radio station WBUR” by allowing WGBH to consolidate its classical programming on the new station and devote its flagship station to news and talk, like WBUR.
And The Word ‘Genius’ Will Hereafter Be Applied To…
Author Edwidge Danticat, documentarian James Longley, short-story writer Deborah Eisenberg, mixed-media artist Mark Bradford, installation artist Camille Utterback and poet Heather McHugh are among this year’s crop of MacArthur fellows.
Cunningham And Cage’s Art Collection To Be Auctioned
“Christie’s will auction [Jasper Johns’ ‘Dancers on a Plane’] and other presents to [Merce] Cunningham, the dancer and choreographer who died in July, and his partner in work and life, the composer John Cage, who died in 1992. Proceeds from the sale, expected to total $3.5 million to $5 million, will benefit the Merce Cunningham Trust….”