“Senior figures at Guardian News & Media are seriously discussing the move to an entirely online operation, it has been claimed, leaving [editor-in-chief Alan] Rusbridger increasingly isolated.” The newspaper is said to lose tens of millions of pounds each year.
Tag: 10.17.12
The Guardian Is Not Abandoning Print, Says The Guardian
“There is no truth in reports that The Guardian intends to stop printing newspapers. Our newspapers generate three-quarters of our revenue and will remain the foundations of our organisation for many years to come.”
San Diego Orchestra’s Conductor Quits Two Days Before Season Opener
Jung-Ho Pak, who led the San Diego Chamber Orchestra through a rebranding as Orchestra Nova, apparently walked out when he couldn’t get “authority to fire musicians who he believed were not being demonstrative, expressive or dramatic enough.” This weekend’s concerts have been canceled.
The Sad State Of Funding The Arts In Georgia (We’re At The Bottom!)
“Long one of the stingiest states in terms of support for the arts, Georgia is now virtually at rock bottom, not willing even to put up enough money to collect the full amount of matching funds available from the National Endowment for the Arts. This year’s grants fall $300,000 short of the NEA’s allocations.”
Big Auction Houses Go Into Competition With Galleries By Opening Their Own Spaces
“Sotheby’s inaugurated what it calls a “dedicated private sale exhibition gallery”, called S|2, in its York Avenue headquarters in New York last year, and has held six exhibitions there since.”
Sydney Opera House Names Its Theatre In Honor Of Joan Sutherland
“Yesterday’s gala event marked the culmination of years of lobbying to have the theatre named for Australia’s most famous operatic star.”
Art Thieves Are Just Plain Stupid
“Like the mafia dons who learned proper gangster style from Hollywood, they draw their picture of the high-end art world from movies rather than from life.”
Is The Banff Center Quitting Classical Music? (Not At All, It Says)
“I think what’s been misunderstood is that his embrace of devoting resources to more than just classical music, so basically growing on the success of what’s already been going on, has been misunderstood as an attack on classical music.”
Revealed: Damien Hirst Show Killed 9,000 Butterflies
“It was recently revealed that more than 9,000 butterflies died as part of Hirst’s recent exhibition, In and Out of Love, at London’s Tate Modern gallery.”
Raoul De Keyser, Abstract Painter, Dead At 82
“[He] became one of the most respected painters of his time, but slowly. For much of his 50-year career he exhibited primarily in Belgium and the Netherlands, achieving international recognition” only in the 1990s.