“What people are really getting away from is a title like ‘Treasures of . . .’ or ‘Masterpieces from . . .’” Arnold Lehman says that there was a time when “every museum had a title like that, or else it was ‘The Golden Age of . . .’ And those have gone by the boards.”
Tag: 12.15.15
Musicians’ Union: Time To Restore Cuts In Orchestra Musicians Pay
“Symphony managements and boards appear reluctant to acknowledge the basic fairness of reversing the draconian cuts that many musicians agreed to in the depths of the crisis. The concessions now seem to be viewed as permanent.”
Why Is Finding A Little Money For The Arts In Sacramento Do Difficult?
City Hall cannot be the source of all arts funding. The community must step up. But in a city that revolves around politics and money, finding $500,000 for a worthwhile cause should not be so difficult.
Jeff Koons Sued (Again) For Appropriating Imagery
“Jeff Koons, a US pop artist whose works can fetch millions, is facing allegations he used a New York photographer’s commercial photo” – in an ad for Gordon’s Gin – “from the 1980s in a painting without permission or compensation, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.”
Quebec Symphony Locks Out Musicians For 36 Hours, Then Settles New Contract
Sunday night at midnight, the management of the financially troubled orchestra ended negotiations that had gone on since January. The lockout was clearly expected to be short: concerts scheduled for this weekend weren’t cancelled. The agreement-in-principle announced on Tuesday afternoon – between the small increases in pay in years 3 to 5 and the reduction in weeks – results in a net increase in base pay (currently around C$34,000) of .25% by 2019-2020. (in French; Google Translate version here)
England’s Public Artworks Are ‘Disappearing Before Our Eyes’
“Historic England is launching a campaign to raise awareness of how much [postwar] art is being lost, whether metal sculptures being stolen and sold for scrap or architectural friezes being deliberately ripped down by developers.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.15.15
Transformative Engagement
In Artcentric Engagement I discussed a kind of engagement in which an arts organization is attempting to bring people to it. As I said there, nothing is wrong with that; it’s simply not the goal … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-12-15
Bach at the Armory with gongs, noise-canceling headphones and deck chairs
Every concert should be like this. Bach’s Goldberg Variations was heard in a piece created by the famous performance artist Marina Abramovic that was a marriage made in…well, the … read more
AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published 2015-12-15
Quality is job one
So the Declassified show at the National Symphony a week ago didn’t strike me as a success. Declassified, as I said in my last post, is a series that the orchestra and its parent … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2015-12-15
Monday Recommendation: Halie Loren
I know – I’m posting the Monday Recommendation on Tuesday. Some Mondays are like that. With a subdued manner and undercurrents of strong feeling, the Oregon singer ranges across … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-12-15
Branford Marsalis and Kurt Elling in New Orleans, ready for recording
Saxophonist Branford Marsalis’s quartet and singer Kurt Elling prepared for their upcoming recording in a … read more
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz Published 2015-12-15
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The 25 Best Books Of The Year, According To Booksellers
“We asked nearly 150 booksellers from 20 bookstores across America to send us their favorite books of the year. The result: 750 suggestions, nearly 100 of which were recommended more than once. Following some very complicated math, we determined the 25 most bookseller-beloved books of the year.”
‘Has The Royal Ballet Lost The Plot?’ Asks UK’s Telegraph
Mark Monahan: “Look back over the new and recent work that the Royal Ballet performed at Covent Garden in 2015, and it is hard to feel much festive cheer.”
Montserrat Caballé Gets Big Fine, Six-Month Sentence For Tax Evasion
“Ms Caballé, who is 82 years old and has avoided public engagements due to frail health since a stroke in 2012, admitted that she had pretended to reside in the low-tax principality of Andorra when in fact she had continued to live in Barcelona.” While her jail sentence has been suspended, she will pay fines totaling well over a quarter of a million euros.