“The Frank and Ellen Remai Foundation has donated 405 Picasso prints worth $20 million to the Remai Art Gallery of Saskatchewan. The new art gallery is being built in the city’s River Landing area and is scheduled to open in 2015.”
Tag: 09.26.12
What’s Wrong With Culture Olympics
“There has to be something wrong with a major and supposedly successful pan-arts festival that guts attendance for a whole class of the host city’s arts institutions, and wallops the part of town most associated with culture. But there’s a lot wrong with the theory and practice of Cultural Olympiads.”
What The Closing Of A Lit Magazine Says About How We Trade Information
“Here’s what I learned through the closure of the Word. The speed with which this item of news spread and became a news event in which people could happily participate and the “disintermediation”, to use a jargon word, of the traditional news outlets was a live demonstration of the same forces which mean you can’t publish magazines, or indeed anything, the way you once did.”
Did The Queen’s James Bond Olympic Moment Change The Way We See TV?
“What makes this television moment so iconic is the juxtaposition of the Queen and James Bond together. Viewers gazed in wonder and puzzlement, pride and laughter: is this really the Queen? The moment beautifully broke the boundaries between fact and fiction, and in doing so made its mark worldwide.”
National Theatre Of Ireland Acquires A Famous Home, Will Stay Put
“The curtains will stay up at the national theatre of Ireland after it announced plans to stay at its famous Dublin inner city site.”
Louisville Wants To Revitalize. But With Freeways?
“Louisville has good bones, good architects and some good ideas. But for three decades the city has wrestled with the interstate and bridge problem. Delays and traffic accidents have mounted.”
Andy Williams, 84
“Williams’ plaintive tenor, boyish features and easy demeanor helped him outlast many of the rock stars who had displaced him and such fellow crooners as Frank Sinatra and Perry Como. He remained on the charts into the 1970s, and continued to perform in his 80s at the Moon River Theatre he built in Branson, Mo.”
Minnesota Orchestra Management Makes ‘Final Offer’ To Musicians
“The Minnesota Orchestra offer clarifies and adjusts proposed changes in work rules, but maintains the original deal’s financial package: a cut in average annual salary from $135,000 to $89,000; guaranteed pension contribution of 7.63 percent of base salary, 10 weeks of paid vacation and up to 26 weeks of paid sick leave.”
Atlanta Symphony Negotiations Produce (Very) Tentative Contract Proposal
The musicians’ union spokesman “said a document was produced from Monday night’s round of negotiations. On Tuesday, it was forwarded to the full orchestra for a vote, and the results are expected Wednesday night. … [He added] that the document and the vote did not mean that an agreement had been reached.”
Miami City Ballet Begins Comeback After Villella’s Dismissal
“After a tough year, Miami City Ballet is suddenly coming back strong. First, the troupe announced $3 million in new donations, a lifesaving influx of nearly a quarter of its $13 million budget. And Tuesday, MCB announced the hiring of a top fundraiser at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington as executive director” – 40-year-old Daniel Hagerty.