“There’s a catch. While the sale does not technically violate guidelines established by the American Association of Museums and Association of Art Museum Directors for the sale or “deaccessioning” of artworks, it might not follow them in spirit.”
Tag: 11.14.10
A Billion Dollars Of Art
That’s the value of arts sold at last week’s art auctions. Crazy prices, really. “Issues of conservation and durability did not seem to be a consideration.”
Seattle’s Intiman Theatre Hanging By A Thread
“Intiman recorded a $518,000 deficit in 2008-09, the most recent year for which Intiman’s tax records are available. It owes Seattle Center about $285,000 in back rent and utilities. It was late in paying some union dues; its endowment has fallen from $3.6 million about two years ago to about $1 million now; and it’s renegotiating its $1 million line of credit.”
Moscow’s Island For The Arts
“It is being called Moscow’s answer to New York’s Tribeca or London’s Docklands, and it would take a writer such as Vladimir Sorokin, the king of contemporary Russian literary grotesque, to imagine the scene.”
Boston’s Museum Of Fine Arts Opens Ambitious New Wing
“The biggest news about the MFA’s new Art of the Americas Wing is the name. The museum could have called it the American Wing (up until relatively recently, in fact, it planned to). But it chose not to.”
Alastair Macaulay Begins a Nutcracker Binge
“The importance of this ballet to America has become a phenomenon that surely says as much about this country as it does about this work of art. So this year I’m running a Nutcracker marathon: taking in as many different American productions as I can reasonably manage in November and December, from coast to coast (more than 20, if all goes well).”