The Age Of Airports "Major airports are beginning to drive business siting and urban development in the 21st century, much as highways did in the 20th, railroads in the 19th, and seaports in the 18th. As aviation-oriented businesses cluster at and near major airports, a new urban entity is emerging: the Aerotropolis." Next American City 05/06
Posted: 07/13/2006 10:33 pm
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Met Museum Joins Art-For-Money Loans The Metropolitan Museum joins the ranks of museums loaning works in their collections for fees, with a show going to the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. "The upcoming Met blockbuster is an 'opportunistic event,' made possible by the need to remove the museum's French 19th-century paintings from the walls while those galleries are expanded. It is, he said, intended to 'raise funds for this construction' - the first time that the Met has structured a traveling exhibition as a big moneymaker." CultureGrrl 07/14/06
Posted: 07/14/2006 10:35 am
Anti-Bad Provenance Insurance An insurance company is selling a new policy that insures the ownership of art. "Their brainchild, art title protection insurance, 'transfers risk to a third party so that people can buy and sell art with the confidence that there is not a World War II claim, an import-export issue or a lien or judgment against the artwork'." Los Angeles Times 07/14/06
Posted: 07/14/2006 7:07 am
Greece To Close Ancient Theatres Greece's two main ancient theatres will be closed in August for urgent repairs, the Greek government has announced. The theatres are used for performances and the crowds have worn down and damaged the ancient sites. CBC 07/13/06
Posted: 07/13/2006 7:03 pm
How Two Guys Sold Scam Art On eBay "Their method was simple. They bought cheap paintings at estate sales, antique shops, small auction houses and even garage sales, then turned around and offered them for sale on eBay. They bid against each other (shill bidding) to drive up the prices and wrote descriptions of the art that suggested the sellers didn't know the extent of the "treasures" they owned. They listed art under a wide range of user IDs (legitimate) and complimented each other's false practices (illegitimate)." Seattle Post-Intelligencer 07/13/06
Posted: 07/13/2006 6:52 pm
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Seattle Symphony Musicians Survey: We're Not Happy With Conductor Schwarz A survey of musicians in the Seattle Symphony shows widespread unhappiness with music director Gerard Schwarz and the orchestra's ineffectual board, which recently renewed the conductor's contract to a 26th season. "The comments - mostly centering on the artistic direction of the orchestra, which Schwarz has led since 1983 - are overwhelmingly negative about the music director and the current leadership of the board, widely regarded as his ally." Seattle Post-Intelligencer 07/14/06
Posted: 07/14/2006 7:30 am
Proms - Like A Rock London's Proms concerts are deeply embedded into the national culture. "If the Proms, now in their 112th season, are the world's most important music festival, they are also the most unchanging. And this is both their strength and, some say, their weakness." The Independent (UK) 07/13/06
Posted: 07/14/2006 7:02 am
Women Shut Out Of the Proms This year's London Proms include no women composers. "It's a gaffe, certainly, and one no Proms director will ever dare to make again. And it raises all kinds of ticklish questions, such as whether women composers and conductors should benefit from positive discrimination, until the ancient bias against them has finally faded away." The Telegraph (UK) 07/13/06
Posted: 07/13/2006 10:20 pm
In Service Of The Conductor Music critic Tom Service packs off to conducting school. How hard can it be? "As a critic, I've spent years talking about what conductors do, blithely assessing their interpretations, gestures, and podium antics, as if I knew how to do it better. Of course, with the virtual orchestra of my imagination, I can kid myself that I do, but what the course made me realise is just how hard it is to communicate your intentions to a group of musicians." The Guardian (UK) 07/14/06
Posted: 07/13/2006 10:14 pm
The Ubiquitous Muzak "Muzak began recasting itself in the mid-1980s and got a radical makeover when it relocated [to South Carolina]from Seattle in the late 1990s. Today its "audio architects" blend art and science to deliver original-artist music from Mozart to Gwen Stefani that fits the bill for some 400,000 clients from Dunkin' Donuts to Bank of America. Muzak owns publishing rights to some 1.5 million songs." Christian Science Monitor 07/14/06
Posted: 07/13/2006 7:16 pm
European Court Nixes Mega-Music Deal A European court has reversed approval of a merger of two of the world's largest recording companies - Bertelsmann and Sony. "The Court said regulators had not adequately shown that the 2004 deal would not hurt competition. The merger created the world's second-biggest record label." BBC 07/13/06
Posted: 07/13/2006 6:55 pm
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Dallas Morning News To Cut Critics? Is the Dallas Morning News about to offload its movie and TV critics? Managers met with staff and "a large part of that meeting dealt with how to make the section more local in coverage–which suggests that those writers who handle movies and TV shows could go, because the paper could simply pick up reviews from wire services." Dallas Observer 07/13/06
Posted: 07/13/2006 6:45 pm
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The Movie Reporter Becomes Playwright "Retired New York Times Hollywood correspondent Bernie Weinraub this week won the NYC Stellar Network's competition, 2006 PLAYS IN PROGRESS, an opportunity for emerging playwrights to gain exposure among top theater industry professionals." Deadline Hollywood 07/12/06
Posted: 07/13/2006 6:47 pm
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Theatre That Heals The Milwaukee Public Theatre is "a theater company without a theater for performances. The company sends its groups all over town bringing puppetry, drumming, improvisation, music, dance, theater, storytelling and more to as diverse an audience as they can reach, focusing on pieces with social relevance. Part of the focus on social relevance includes healing arts programming." Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 07/10/06
Posted: 07/14/2006 7:14 am
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Canadian Bookstore Ban Of Harper's Results In Bestseller Last month Indigo, Canada's largest bookstore chain, decided to ban Harper's Magazine from its racks because of some of the magazine's content. But the controversy over the move helped make the June issue of Harper's a best-seller in canada, as readers flocked to other outlets to buy the magazine. Toronto Star 07/14/06
Posted: 07/14/2006 7:50 am
Shakespeare - Sold For $5 Million A rare folio of complete Shakespeare has sold for $5 million. "London dealer Simon Finch Rare Books purchased the book — still in its original 17th-century calfskin binding — during a sale at Sotheby's. The book is one of about 40 complete copies known to exist and one of the few in private hands. Its value was estimated at between $4.6 million and 6.4 million." Yahoo! (AP) 07/13/06
Posted: 07/13/2006 7:11 pm
Unknown Shelley Poem Surfaces A 200-year-old poem by Shelley had been found. "The 172-line poem was included in Shelley's pamphlet Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things, which was printed in Oxford in 1811. The political work was never published again and its existence has been doubted by some until now." BBC 07/13/06
Posted: 07/13/2006 6:57 pm
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Another Political Battle For The Corporation for Public Broadcasting? "The nomination of Warren Bell, executive producer of ABC's 'According to Jim' and a contributor to the online edition of the conservative National Review magazine, has puzzled and alarmed some public broadcasters, who fear he would revive the sharp political debate that engulfed the system last year." Los Angeles Times 07/14/06
Posted: 07/14/2006 7:04 am
Canadian Media Giant Swallows Big Competitor Canada's biggest media company says it is buying one of its biggest competitors. "BGM owns CTV and the Globe and Mail, along with 17 TV specialty channels, including TSN, MTV and the Discovery Channel. On Wednesday, BGM announced it had agreed to pay $1.4 billion for control of national rival CHUM Ltd., which owns 33 radio stations and 12 TV stations, headed by the Citytv channels in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg. CHUM also owns 21 specialty TV channels and the Muzak background-music operation in Canada." CBC 07/13/06
Posted: 07/13/2006 7:00 pm
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