Toronto man rebroadcasts every TV station available in Toronto over the internet on Icravetv.com, and networks have a fit. “It’s all perfectly legal,” he claims. Wired
- Watch Toronto TV at www.Icravetv.com (hint: Toronto area code is 416)
Tag: 12.17.99
MILLENNIAL MALAISE
“Art museums haven’t escaped the end-of-century urge to take things apart and sum them up. Most of the resulting shows exhaust you with good intentions, grand ambitions, murky thinking and too many things.” Boston Globe
SUMMING UP THE SMITHSONIAN
Departing director of the Smithsonian reflects on his five years in charge. Washington Post
GERMANY TO POST LIST of artwork it “acquired” between 1933 and 1945.
Government still holds 13,000 pieces of art taken through forced sales, confiscation, theft and pillage, from Jews and the countries conquered by the Nazis. The Art Newspaper
LEAVING ONE MOMA FOR ANOTHER
Gary Garrels leaves chief curator job at SF-MOMA for curatorship of paintings and drawings at NY-MOMA. San Francisco Chronicle
CULTURAL MAKEOVER
Major Australian government national report on the state of the arts recommends a reshaping of the country’s cultural landscape. Sydney Morning Herald
- The report’s key points
- Getting government to pay attention to arts is a problem
- Report recommends Opera Australia sell off property assets to repay debts – Opera says no.
- Read the full report Sydney Morning Herald 12/17/99
THE FUTURE OF HIGH “C”
New operas everywhere and the future seems bright. In Amsterdam, British filmmaker Peter Greenaway and Dutch composer Louis Andriessen joined forces in Writing to Vermeer. At the Monnaie in Brussels, star director Luc Bondy and Belgian composer Philippe Boesmans collaborated on The Winter’s Tale, an adaptation of the Shakespeare play. A critic who saw them both wonders about the viability of the artform. – Financial Times
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA musicians –
– sign new five-year contract. Base salary climbs to $100,000. – Cleveland Plain Dealer