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Monday, October 6




Visual Arts

The Biennale Of Florence - Tangled In Paperwork "When the first Florence Biennale was held, more than 40 years ago, it was a trailblazer for the international art market, attracting scores of foreign dealers, 120,000 paying visitors and another 40,000 invited guests. But in the decades that followed, it lost ground to rivals as the Paris Biennale established a reputation for chic glitz and the small Dutch town of Maastricht attracted the world's most important dealers, collectors and curators to its art fair." Italy's draconian art export laws are so tough, they have played havoc with the biennale. The Telegraph (UK) 10/06/03
Posted: 10/05/2003 8:58 pm

Tokyo's New Art Palace The new Mori Museum of contemporary art opens in Tokyo in two weeks. It is being touted as the most significant art development in years in the capital. "The museum will act as an interface between contemporary art, which is in a constant state of change, and a broad audience. The mission is to introduce things to people with which they are not yet familiar and to make the unfamiliar seem attractive. It is a challenge." Financial Times 10/03/03
Posted: 10/05/2003 8:32 pm

I.M Pei And The National Gallery (A Love Story) The National Gallery's I.M. Pei-designed East Building turns 25 this year. "Pei has staked his career on bold visions and controversial stands. Architects have voted the building one of the 10 best in America. Pei has just admitted to 'great affection' for his creation, as well he should. The East Building's extraordinary geometries and modern spirit established Pei as a 20th-century master. Success here also propelled him on to the challenge of his career, the historic remaking of France's grand Louvre museum." Washington Post 10/05/03
Posted: 10/05/2003 7:50 pm

  • The Other Side Of I.M. Pei "There is another side to I.M Pei's work in the capital. By the time he received the National Gallery commission in 1968, Pei's name already was attached to seven Washington buildings, with another two on the way. This early work is altogether a mixed legacy, yet it is too good or too interesting to be lightly dismissed. Dismissal or even denial, however, is more or less the architect's own attitude." Washington Post 10/05/03
    Posted: 10/05/2003 7:35 pm

A New Picasso Museum A new Picasso Museum is about to open in Malaga, Spain. "Christine Ruiz-Picasso, the widow of Picasso’s eldest son Paulo, has donated 133 works to the museum and her son Bernard has given another 22. Another 49 works are on loan from other relatives for 10 years." The Art Newspaper 10/04/03
Posted: 10/05/2003 6:24 pm

The Raphael - Picture, Picture, Who Gets The Picture? The status of Raphael’s “Madonna of the pinks” is growing increasingly murky. The Getty Museum has offered £35 million for the painting, and would export it to the US. But if the painting was valued at £20 million plus taxes for the owner and the money were forthcoming in the UK, the painting would stay in England. But should it be valued at £20 million? And the taxes? The Art Newspaper 10/04/03
Posted: 10/05/2003 6:10 pm

Music

Carnegie Establishes Education Center Carnegie Hall gets a $24.7 million gift to extablish a music education center. It is the largest single donation in the hall's history. "We think we can make a difference in music education. When you think about how audiences are declining, or you go to concerts and see the age of the audience, you're looking at a major void." The New York Times 10/06/03
Posted: 10/05/2003 9:08 pm

Elevating Elgar Edward Elgar was so revered in his home country England that his picture adorns the back of the £20 note. "Yet a recent YouGov poll found that three-quarters of British adults were unable to recognise his portrait on the back of theirs. They were more likely to say the man with the droopy moustache was the imperialist Lord Kitchener than England's greatest home-grown composer since Henry Purcell." A new initiative aims to raise Elgar's profile. The Guardian (UK) 10/06/03
Posted: 10/05/2003 8:49 pm

Rosen On The Piano Charles Rosen is a brilliant writer about music. But he's also a major pianist. "He would probably be better known as a pianist if he had not published a single word about music. That he has not belonged to the most visible group of concert pianists that includes Murray Perahia, Emmanuel Ax, Alfred Brendel, Maurizio Pollini, and Richard Goode is a circumstance with multiple causes (including his decision to play Boulez rather than Brahms, Schoenberg and Carter rather than Schubert and Copland)." So his new book about the piano is something to be taken very seriously indeed. New York Review of Books 10/23/03
Posted: 10/05/2003 8:13 pm

Taking Another Look At Khachaturian Aram Khachaturian's music was dismissed by many in the 1950s and 60s as being lightweight. But this year - the year he would have been 100 years old, "the pendulum of serious music has swung to the other extreme. The realities of Soviet life and politics are better known, and the personal histories of artists are understood as having been more complex. The time may be ripe to take another look at Khachaturian's music." The New York Times 10/05/03
Posted: 10/05/2003 7:20 pm

Arts Issues

Non-Profits Find a Little For-Profit On The Side "For a long time, pop music acts have been selling T-shirts, videos, coffee mugs, beach towels and the like as a separate revenue stream. Now, increasingly, non-profit arts groups are getting into the act." Want a piece of Disney Hall? It's yours, for a price... Chicago Tribune (LATimes) 10/05/03
Posted: 10/05/2003 7:01 pm

Theatre

Online - Where The Critics Are Really Tough Broadway internet chatrooms have become a force on the Great White Way. "What is unclear is whether the boards affect a show's fate. Conventional wisdom says, for instance, that bad Internet buzz about the Boston tryout of the 2000 flop 'Seussical' killed the show's Broadway run. Some disagree, however, saying reviews and, of course, the shows themselves still matter far more than online opinions. Do posts influence shows' creative teams? If so, no one involved in a production would ever admit it." The New York Times 10/05/03
Posted: 10/05/2003 7:16 pm

The Out-Of-Language Shakespeare Justin Cartwright puzzles over the allure of Shakespeare in other languages. "I have often wondered what lies behind foreign-language productions of Shakespeare. We would be very different if he had not existed, much more different than if Germany had succeeded in invading, for instance. Hamlet, possibly because of its obvious political themes, is the most produced play in the world and Shakespeare the most-produced playwright." The Guardian (UK) 10/04/03
Posted: 10/05/2003 7:05 pm

Aussie Stages - Buy Australian Is there too much American theatre on Australian stages? "Australians should get out and see their own stories told on stage, says Playbox Theatre artistic director Aubrey Mellor. He argues that cultural cringe is alive and well and that we know more American and British history than our own." The Age (Melbourne) 10/06/03
Posted: 10/05/2003 5:42 pm

Publishing

Virtual Book Success (From Vancouver Island) "In the troubled world of bookselling, Abebooks is one of the most astonishing success stories not only in Canada but in the world. Profitable from the day it started, it has become the world's largest marketplace for used, rare and out-of-print books,With subsidiaries in Germany (Abebooks.de), Britain (Abebooks.co.uk) and France (Abebooks.fr), Abebooks.com is a virtual storehouse of more than 45 million books originating from 12,000 independent booksellers in 42 countries. Each day, it sells between 15,000 and 20,000 books — $134 million worth of books a year." Toronto Star 10/05/03
Posted: 10/05/2003 7:29 pm

Dance

The End Of Ballett Frankfurt? Choreographer William Forsythe's Ballett Frankfurt is to be dissolved next year. "The dissolution of Ballett Frankfurt is of great consequence to the dance world. Over two decades, Forsythe transformed this company into one of the most consequential contemporary ballet ensembles in the world, creating dances out of a profound body of deeply ingrained physical knowledge. Choreographers need their tools - dancers - and the best tools are those who have been honed into perfect form for the work at hand." Seeing Things (AJBlogs) 10/03/03
Posted: 10/05/2003 8:22 pm


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