“The first formal valuation of the entire city-owned collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts finds that the roughly 60,000 pieces of art are worth between $2.8 billion and $4.6 billion.” Unless they’re actually sold, in which case they’d bring in a lot less.
New York City Ballet’s New Resident Choreographer: Justin Peck
His appointment, just two years after his first work for City Ballet, “makes him the second person to hold this position at City Ballet, after Christopher Wheeldon, who was the company’s resident choreographer from 2001 to 2008.”
Seymour Barab, 93, Cellist And Composer Of Whimsical Chamber Operas
While he did write serious stage works based on Dostoevsky and de Maupassant, “he was still more widely known for lighter one-act works whose accessibility, tunefulness and economy of scale made them among the most frequently performed operas in the world … perennial favorites of college, semiprofessional and regional companies.”