Broadway stagehands voted unanimously Sunday to give their union the authority to call a strike against theater producers, increasing tension in their stalled labor negotiations.
Tag: 10.22.07
Pavarotti Died Heavily In Debt
“Opera legend Luciano Pavarotti died with 18 million euros of personal debt, according to Italian media reports. The famous tenor’s bank accounts were 11 million euros in deficit and he owed another seven million in unpaid loans, said the daily La Repubblica on Sunday.”
Inside The Making Of A MassMoCA Art Disaster
“The fallout from this fiasco continues, even as the art world digests its lessons. Büchel has appealed the court ruling. Michele Maccarone, the New York gallery director who represents Büchel in the United States, said she will tell collectors not to support the museum and will steer her stable of artists, including Christian Jankowski and Carol Bove, away from the institution. Mass MoCA is planning a symposium this fall on the now notorious disaster. And thanks to thousands of pages of documents filed in court, the dispute could serve as the ultimate how-not-to guide in the complicated world of installation art.”
A Compelling Theory About What Killed Mr. Poe
“Edgar Allan Poe’s death is one of the biggest literary mysteries, period. People don’t grow tired of it. It’s sort of like the J.F.K. assassination.” Now a researcher thinks he knows the answer…
Classical Music – Reborn On The Internet
“Between 1980 and 2000, classical music more or less disappeared from American network television, magazines, and other mainstream media, its products deemed too élitist, effete, or esoteric for the world of pop.” But “the anonymity of Internet browsing has made classical music more accessible to non-fanatics; first-time listeners can read reviews, compare audio samples, and decide on, for example, a Beethoven recording by Wilhelm Furtwängler, all without risking the humiliation of mispronouncing the conductor’s name under the sour gaze of a record clerk.”