“Google has launched a new online tool to allow museums, galleries and individuals to create online art exhibitions. Google Open Gallery became available for public use this week, though potential users must request an invitation from Google to use the free service.”
John Cage, Filmmaker (They’ve Found The Evidence)
Court Allows California To Resume Suit For Nazi-Looted Pissarro Painting
“A Jewish family from San Diego that has been seeking to recover a painting by Camille Pissarro that a relative sold during the Holocaust has received a legal victory from a panel of judges who ruled this week that the family can pursue the case, reversing an earlier court decision that had favored the painting’s present owner.”
L.A. County Museum Of Art Is Reviving Its Art-Meets-Tech Companies Program
Weinstein Brothers Sue Warner Studios – Again
Surprises And Snubs In The 2014 Golden Globe Noms
“The Golden Globes have a long and often amusing reputation for nomination-morning howlers. But [this year], there was no Tourist, no Burlesque, no Salmon Fishing in the Yemen … Yet that didn’t mean the snubs and surprises, the jaw-droppers and the head-scratchers, weren’t there. Here are six of the biggest.”
Will David Sedaris Or Stephen Colbert Finally Win A Grammy This Year?
Drag Queens, Soul Sisters And A Proto-Carrie: 2014 Grammy Noms For Musical Theater
Classical Grammy Nominations 2014: An Esa-Pekka Year?
Salonen (or his work) is nominated in three different categories. Other nominees include the familiar (Rattle, DiDonato, Bartoli; Wagner, Beethoven, Pärt), those we should know better (Lutoslawski, Palestrina; Maria João Pires, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir), the up-and-coming (2013 Pulitzer winner Caroline Shaw; New York Polyphony), the little-known (Leonardo Vinci, not to be confused with that mirror-writing Mona Lisa guy), and the beleaguered (Osmo and the Minnesotans).
Upstarts Upset Chick Corea In 2014 Grammy Jazz Nominations
Jazz Guitarist Jim Hall, 83
“His career began in the ’50s as part of the West Coast jazz scene with Jimmy Giuffre and Chico Hamilton, recorded with wealth of jazz royalty over his career, including Ben Webster, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Evans and Sonny Rollins.” Despite his relatively quiet profile, he was considered one of his instrument’s most influential players in all of jazz.
How Did A Furniture Factory In Wisconsin Turn Out So Many Classic Records?
Will Sundance Turn This Arizona Dude Ranch Into An Artists’ Colony?
Nelson Mandela’s Legacy To The Arts
“Many people know that Nelson Mandela’s life inspired novels, poems, plays and films, but few people know how powerful his effect on the theater was and how powerful the theater’s effect was on him.” A tribute from playwright Emily Mann, director of Princeton’s McCarter Theater.
For Maria Callas’s Birthday, Five Great Rumors
What Happens When You Outfit An Entire (Massive) School District With iPads?
Walt Disney Had Some (Possibly Surprising) Opinions On Women Working In Animation
The currently hot “Frozen” is the first feature film from Disney Animation with a woman director, but perhaps not because of Walt (in 1941): “The girl artists have the right to expect the same chances for advancement as men, and I honestly believe they may eventually contribute something to this business that men never would or could.”