The collection “focuses on his war poetry with manuscripts of poems such as ‘The General’ and ‘Died of Wounds’ as well as photographs and letters.”
Tag: 11.11.09
Judge OKs High School Productions Of Laramie, Rent
“Some parents who object to the plays’ ‘mature content’ had sought a preliminary injunction to stop both productions. But lawyers for the Clark County School District said the parents’ lawyer failed to prove one of the basic criteria for a preliminary injunction, that it would cause ‘irreparable harm’ to the plaintiffs.”
Refunds Aren’t Priority For Honolulu Symphony Patrons
The Honolulu Symphony announced last week “that it will file for Chapter 11 reorganization and must cut its payroll by as much as half,” but patrons aren’t clamoring to get their money back for canceled November and December concerts, or for the uncertain remainder of the 2009-10 season.
Report: British Museum To Loan Cyrus Cylinder To Iran
The three-month loan of the 2,500-year-old cylinder, reported by Iranian TV but unconfirmed by the museum, follows last month’s threat by Iran to “sever all ties with the British Museum unless a promise to send the Cylinder to the National Museum of Iran was honored.”
New Museum’s Ethical Risk: Showing Trustee’s Collection
The New Museum of Contemporary Art’s upcoming exhibition of industrialist Dakis Joannou’s collection “is generating anticipatory chatter in the art world. But it is also leading to buzz of a different kind, about the propriety of turning over a public museum to a private collector who also happens to be a museum trustee and a chief patron of the curator.”
Worker Killed During Kansas City PAC Construction
“A construction accident at the future home of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts killed one man and critically injured a second this afternoon. A portable boom lift with a basket on top toppled over about 1:45 p.m. … Both workers were in the basket before it plummeted about 50 feet to the pavement.”
Scots Widow Leaves $7.5M To Met
Mona Webster, a retired civil servant from Edinburgh who died in August at age 96, has left nearly half of her wealth – £4.5 million – to the Metropolitan Opera. (Most of the rest went to the UK’s Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust.)