With less than 72 hours before their contract runs out, it looks likely that musicians of the Chicago Symphony will be going out on strike. “During the last two weeks key issues such as salaries, health care and pension costs and work rules have not been broached even in conversations between the negotiating committee and management representatives, let alone as serious talking points, sources say.”
Tag: 10.29.04
Dancer Is New Cambodian King
A former ballet dancer has been sworn in as the new king of Cambodia. “”The new king has never held political office, but he was Cambodia’s ambassador to UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural organisation, a post he left only recently.”
Eustis To Lead Public Theatre?
Who will be the next director of New York’s Public Theatre? “Oskar Eustis, the artistic director of the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, R.I., is the leading candidate after an eight-month search, a process that included nearly 100 candidates and eventually involved interviews with about a dozen finalists.”
Alsop Slides Into Bankruptcy
England’s Alsop Architects has declared bankruptcy. “Alsop has been the driving force behind a plethora of media-grabbing projects, including the intended transformation of Barnsley into a semblance of a Tuscan hill town, the planned creation of a “mega-city” for 15 million people linking existing settlements across the north of England, and the rebranding of Middlesbrough with proposed blocks of flats shaped like Prada skirts.”
Guilty: Man Destroys Dali To Create Dali
A man has been found guilty of cutting up a Salvador Dali painting and using it to create a new piece of art. “John Peter Moore, a former private secretary to the artist, cut up a stolen 1969 Dalí painting, The Double Image of Gala, and used it to create what he claimed was a new Dalí.”