Tag: 10.18.17

Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.18.17

Dandy Danforth: Framingham Approves Win-Win University Partnership to Rescue Museum & Its Collection
I recently denounced as a bad role model for the Berkshire Museum the deplorable disposals by the New-York Historical Society in 1995. Those selloffs were recently touted by Felix Salmon in a Berkshire Museum-related article as … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2017-10-18

Lauren Greenfield and “Generation Wealth”
Generally, I think the art world has missed the opportunity to address the Great Recession and the amping up of income inequality and the one percent that followed. But some visual artists have made … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2017-10-18

 

Russia Extends House Arrest For Leading Theater/Film Director

Kirill Serebrennikov, chief of Moscow’s Gogol Center and best-known in the West as director of the Bolshoi’s off-again/on-again ballet Nureyev, “was placed under house arrest in August on charges of embezzling 68 million rubles ($1.1 million) in government funds in a case widely seen as political. … The judge denied Serebrennikov’s request to be released for five days to complete the filming of a movie about rock legend Viktor Tsoi and to visit the Bolshoi Theater Dec. 9-10. The director will remain under house arrest until Jan. 19 next year.”