The ten-year Cleveland San Jose Ballet partnership comes apart in money dispute. – The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
Tag: 10.20.99
SAVING CLASSICAL BALLET
A fan, dismayed by the ballet he was seeing in Russia, decided to start his own company in 1994. This week the St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre comes to America. – The Washington Post
ARTIST PROTEST
Tuesday, artists hung a giant “censored” sign over a billboard promoting the arts in Hartford after city officials pulled a piece of artwork from a show at a public gallery. Hartford Courant
CROSSFIRE
Schuyler Chapin, New York’s commissioner of culture, is caught between a peeved mayor and arts supporters clamoring for Chapin’s support in the Brooklyn Museum debacle. New York Times
ARTIST PROTEST
Tuesday, artists hung a giant “censored” sign over a billboard promoting the arts in Hartford after city officials pulled a piece of artwork from a show at a public gallery. Hartford Courant
CANADIAN LITERARY PRIZES
How is it that the lists for Canada’s top two literary prizes are so stunningly different? – National Post
AND: Small presses triumph in Governor General’s list.– Toronto Globe and Mail 10/20/99
THE LAST EDITOR
Robert Gottlieb was the last real editor at the New Yorker. The wreckage of “Talk” magazine underlines the real failures of the Tina Brown years at the venerable literary mag. – Boston Globe
FREE FOR ALL
Incensed at a sale of his work at a British auction last week, David Hockney makes an offer to readers of a London newspaper – “I’ll send you free art if you ask.” CBC
MILLENNIAL FEVER
Twice as large as Atlanta’s Georgia Dome, wide enough to fit the Eiffel Tower laid on its side and big enough to contain 1,100 Olympic-sized swimming pools. It’s London’s new Millennial Dome, racing toward completion before the calendar changes. Baltimore Sun
AND: London: spectacular venue for the Millennium(Reuters) Philadelphia Daliy News 10/20/99
CUSTOM CDs
Online music retailer plans to set up kiosks in retail music stores and malls where consumers can custom-pick and make their own music CDs. – Variety