“William B. Jordan, the art historian, said that he took his painting” – a portrait of Philip III of Spain – “to the Prado’s art experts last year to have it authenticated after acquiring it in an auction in 1988.”
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Poland’s Great National Epic Play Becomes The Same Sort Of Cultural Battleground That ‘Hamilton’ Just Became In The US
Adam Mickiewicz’s Dziady (usually rendered in English as Forefathers’ Eve), a text every Pole studies in school, has been used to make strong cultural and political statements for decades. And, as in the States, a low-turnout election recently brought a right-wing nationalist government to power. So the new production of Dziady at the 2016 Theatre Olympics in Wrocław this past fall was potentially far more fraught than Hamilton became after Mike Pence saw it.
City Of Birmingham Symphony Sees Local Funding Cut By 25%
The orchestra known as the platform from which Simon Rattle and Andris Nelsons launched their world-beating careers – and where young wonder-woman Mirga just took over as music director – will be receiving the same amount of city funding it received in the 1980s (and that’s not adjusted for inflation).
UK’s Second City Slashes Culture Funding By A Third
“On Thursday, Birmingham Rep, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Midlands Arts Centre were among organisations told they would receive heavy cuts to funding. The cuts are not out of the blue and organisations had been braced for the news. But it is the scale and, they said, lack of time to implement them that is striking.”
‘Brexit’ Leads 2016 List Of New Entries In Oxford English Dictionary
“Fiona McPherson, senior editor on the OED, told The Guardian the word had been one of the fastest to move from coinage to definition and listing.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.15.16
Mission Mishmash: Divided Loyalties in Sotheby’s Plan to Advise Artists, Their Estates & Foundations
Decades ago, before Christie’s introduced the buyer’s premium to New York, auction houses in the U.S. were clear on who they represented: Their client was the seller. Today’s murky waters just got murkier with Sotheby’s… read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-12-15
Mark Swed: The Best Music I Heard This Year In LA
It’s easy to talk about the need for new things in classical music, but then you read about the highlights of Mark Swed’s listening diet in Los Angeles for 2016 and the concerns melt away…
Scythian Gold From Crimea, Marooned Abroad After Russian Annexation, Must Be Returned To Ukraine, Court Rules
“Items of Scythian gold that had been on loan from four Crimean museums to a Dutch archaeological museum when Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 must be returned to Kiev, a court in Amsterdam ruled yesterday.”