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Friday, June 18




Visual Arts

Artist Rights Vs. Owner Rights Does the Visual Artists Rights Act need to be revisited? "New law often has unintended consequences, and VARA, which was intended to resolve conflicts between artists and private collectors, has set off disputes between the rights of artists and those of building owners. Most of the artwork involved is owned by people who really aren't collectors. They tend to be government officials or the buyers of buildings, who are not aware of the art law's restrictions." OpinionJournal.com 05/27/04
Posted: 06/18/2004 7:39 am

Russian Trial On "Blasphemous" Art "A prominent Russian human rights advocate and two other defendants went on trial Tuesday, accused of organizing a blasphemous exhibit. Their lawyers said the charges were so vague it was impossible to answer them." International Herald Tribune (AP) 06/18/04
Posted: 06/18/2004 6:21 am

Stolen Paintings (Including "Cezanne") Recovered In Australia "A hoard of stolen paintings, including a work said to be by impressionist Paul Cezanne, has been recovered by police in Australia." The paintings were stolen from an Australian art restorer in February, and he claimed that a Cezanne worth $50 million was among them. But the paintings were uninsured, and Cezanne experts said they had never heard of such a Cezanne. BBC 06/18/04
Posted: 06/18/2004 6:08 am

Scottish Museum Gets Big Boost A prominent Scottish businessman has donated £5 million to Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, with the money earmarked to build a new educational wing. The Kelvingrove is mounting a £28 million renovation, and Hunter's new wing will be "dedicated to a series of inspirational Scots." The Herald (UK) 06/18/04
Posted: 06/17/2004 9:28 pm

Francis Bacon Triptych Leaving Tehran "A major triptych by Francis Bacon is about to see the light after languishing for more than 30 years in the store of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. Two Figures Lying on a Bed With Attendants (1968) was bought, having been shown in Europe in 1972, by the wife of the last shah of Iran. It became part of the collection of the Tehran museum, but it is thought to have been on display there only once in 30 years." The paintings were discovered by the director of the Tate Britain museum while he was vacationing in Tehran, and an exchange of works was worked out to bring the Bacon works to London. The Guardian (UK) 06/18/04
Posted: 06/17/2004 9:09 pm

British Royal Portrait To Get First Public Viewing "One of the greatest English royal portraits of the 16th century is to be shown in public for the first time. Hans Eworth's painting of Queen Mary I - completed shortly after her marriage to Philip II of Spain on July 25, 1554 - shows her wearing the famous Peregrina pearl, a present from her new husband. Centuries later the same jewel was given by Richard Burton to Elizabeth Taylor." The Age (Melbourne) 06/18/04
Posted: 06/17/2004 8:50 pm

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Music

Scottish Opera Chorus Gets The Official Axe That the chorus members of the Scottish Opera are about to lose their jobs has been common knowledge for weeks, ever since details of the Scottish Executive's plan to "save" the company hit the press. But the chorus hadn't had their fears officially confirmed until last night, when their chorus master informed them, 24 minutes before a performance, that they were all officially being laid off. The chorus has offered singing protests outside the company's hall before and after concerts lately, and the petition they are circulating in an effort to reverse the Executive's decision sports the signature of Scottish Opera's own chief executive. The Scotsman (UK) 06/18/04
Posted: 06/17/2004 8:25 pm

Arts Issues

Ontario Culture Budget Gets A Bump Up The province of Ontario is having budget problems like governments everywhere. But the new budget for culture is going up. "Estimates for the 2004-05 fiscal year, released this week, show that the Ontario government's cultural program will involve expenditures of close to $150-million. That's an increase of almost 7 per cent over last year, and the first substantive hike in culture funding in more than five years." The Globe & Mail (Canada) 06/18/04
Posted: 06/18/2004 7:26 am

Study On State Arts Agencies Sparks Debate A new RAND study on US state arts agencies criticizes them for "failing to be forward-thinking in their visions and politically astute in their operations, and for failing to become financially insulated from the vagaries of the economy and state budgeting." But Jonathan Katz, CEO of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, takes issue with some of the report's findings. Backstage 06/18/04
Posted: 06/18/2004 6:34 am

Cheaper Than The Real Stock Market, Too Do you want to attend a theater, music, or sporting event, but just can't tear yourself away from your thrill-a-minute life trading stocks? StubHub, a web site that turns ticket brokerage into something akin to an eBay auction held in the trading pit of a stock exchange, is here to help you... The New York Times 06/18/04
Posted: 06/17/2004 9:51 pm

In America, We Just Call That 'Free Enterprise' A government investigation has been launched into London ticket brokers who are allegedly charging exorbitant fees for West End productions. The investigation will look into whether such brokers are "distorting the market" and possibly even working with event organizers to cheat the public. The Guardian (UK) 06/18/04
Posted: 06/17/2004 9:13 pm

Theatre

Did Avenue Q Producers Dupe Tour Presenters? National tour presenters are feeling betrayed by producers of Avenue Q. They feel that they were "duped" into voting a Tony for the show thinking that it would help the tour business. Instead,"the news that the show would skip a national tour and instead run, in the fall of 2005, in a $40 million, 1,200-seat theatrical venue being built by Steve Wynn in his new $2.5 billion casino, the Wynn Las Vegas Resort and Country Club, snapped the business (and those who cover it) to attention. For road presenters, it caused a reaction as close to a paroxysm as the theatre ever sees." Backstage 06/18/04
Posted: 06/18/2004 6:25 am

Publishing

Does Joyce Really Matter? James Joyce is more than the author of what many academic types call the greatest novel of the 20th century. He is, or so we have been told for ages, the father of the literary modernist movement. But since most modern writers don't have a lot of use for modernism these days, is Joyce becoming similarly irrelevant? Authors Jim Lewis and Jeffrey Eugenides have some thoughts on the subject. Slate 06/17/04
Posted: 06/17/2004 10:08 pm

Moroccan Novel Wins Dublin Prize "Moroccan author Tahar Ben Jelloun has won one of the world's richest literature prizes. Ben Jelloun's novel, This Blinding Absence of Light, won the 100,000 euro [$120,000] International Impac Dublin Literary Award 2004, on Thursday. The prize is the biggest for a single work of fiction in English." BBC 06/17/04
Posted: 06/17/2004 8:17 pm

Media

MPAA Objects To Bill Allowing Edited Movie Versions The Motion Picture Association of America is objecting to a proposed new law in the US Congress that would exempt from legal liability anyone using software to make "family friendly" versions of movies. "Our objection is simply to Congress providing legal cover to companies that want to make a profit by offering an edited, abridged version, without regard for the wishes of the director who created the movie or the studio that owns the copyright." BBC 06/18/04
Posted: 06/18/2004 6:12 am

Conservatives Take On Moore The conservative action group that got the CBS biopic The Reagans pulled from the TV schedule last year is mounting a new campaign against Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. So far, they don't appear to be on the verge of another kill... USA Today 06/18/04
Posted: 06/17/2004 10:16 pm

Europe To Approve Historic Media Merger "The European Commission is poised to approve a merger between Sony Music and BMG," according to sources. The approval is something of a surprise, constituting a reversal of the commission's earlier published position on the merger, which expressed grave concern over the dominance that the merged company would have on the global music trade. The decision to approve the merger could come as early as Friday. International Herald Tribune (Paris) 06/18/04
Posted: 06/17/2004 9:38 pm

Dance

Pondering Balanchine In St. Petersburg "To see program after program of Balanchine at the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg is to be exposed to every kind of nostalgia and fantasy. This is the theater where, at the age of ten in 1914, he made his debut as a tiny cupid in The Sleeping Beauty. It’s also a theater where, through most of the 20th century, his work went unseen." New York Observer 06/15/04
Posted: 06/18/2004 6:41 am


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