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Snøhetta, the Oslo architecture firm, opened the Shanghai Grand Opera House on October 17 with a double-helix staircase on the Huangpu River that passersby can climb whether or not they have a seat inside (Architectural Digest).
Buddy Brundo, 83, is asking $15 million for Conway Recording Studios, the Melrose Avenue complex where Fleetwood Mac and Kendrick Lamar recorded (Los Angeles Times). Will a judge break up Live Nation? Hundreds of independent venues around America have closed as Live Nation tightened its grip on the concert business. The judge who could break up the company hasn’t ruled on its bid to overturn April’s verdict (Los Angeles Times).
Art Basel Paris closed Friday night, two days early, ahead of planned weekend protests in the city, and a Vienna dealer says that participating galleries will lose the weekend collectors who work during the week (ARTnews).
The Philadelphia Orchestra’s funding campaign closed at $344 million against a $330 million goal, with 13,000 donors new to the orchestra or the Kimmel Center (Philadelphia Inquirer). David Cohen is now adding $10.5 million with his wife, Rhonda, calling arts organizations “a little under-appreciated” (Philadelphia Inquirer).
In July 1518 a woman named Frau Troffea began dancing in a Strasbourg street and didn’t stop; by late August as many as 400 people had joined her. City officials cleared the grain market, built a stage and hired musicians, then reversed course and banned dancing, a sequence the historian John Waller tells Popular Science did real harm.
All of the stories we collected are below.