Weekend, June 3-4
Who Owns You When You're Famous? (And Why It Matters) Increasingly, celebrities are claiming ownership of any mention of their famous selves. "Some worry that publicity rights have already expanded too far, allowing celebrities unilaterally to dictate how the rest of us can portray them. Others respond that it's simply the law's reasonable recognition of the economic value of celebrity. The issues and arguments can be similar to those in trademark and copyright cases. In a unique way though, right-of-publicity disputes are also about fame-who owns it, and what it's worth." Boston Globe 06/04/06
Posted: 06/04/2006 12:38 pm
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Reason To Forge "Accounts of art forgers tend to talk up their subject as “the greatest” swindler of all time: the most efficient, the most reckless or the one who got away with it most frequently. The forgers themselves seem to nurse a certain fatal egotism too. Some claim an almost supernatural affinity with the artist they copy." Financial Times 06/02/06
Posted: 06/04/2006 1:05 pm
The Great Shrinking WTC Memorial As the cost of the World Trade Center memorial escalate, the question has to be asked whether it's time to scrp the project. "As the memorial has leapt in cost, its commemorative possibilities have shrunk... The very officials who are shocked at the price tag bear considerable responsibility for it. A steep cost became inevitable when politicians acceded to the early clamor to define the entire footprints of both towers as sacred ground." Bloomberg.com 06/02/06
Posted: 06/04/2006 12:59 pm
The Day The Great Memorials Died "For a long time their architects and artists, their stone-carvers and bronze-founders got better and better. For a long time their elevated style got nobler and nobler. Then, suddenly, it died. It died a poignant death -- at the peak of its accomplishment, just when it got great. We know the date exactly. Memorial sculpture's greatness left Washington forever on the 30th of May, Memorial Day, 1922." Washington Post 06/04/06
Posted: 06/04/2006 11:13 am
The Architect And The Developer - Where's The Public Interest? "There was a time when government took an interest in big urban planning projects." Increasingly, though, government plays only a marginal role. "Bigger social concerns, like housing for mixed incomes, equal access to parks and transit, and vibrant communal spaces, which were once the public's purview, now increasingly fall to developers to address or not, as they see fit." The New York Times 06/04/06
Posted: 06/04/2006 10:29 am
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Consider... The Accordion June is National Accordion Awareness Month. So is the accordion becoming cool again? "The sound of a piano accordion makes people happy. If I were to join the musicians who played while the Titanic was sinking, I'd grab my Weltmeister piano accordion -- the smaller one I use for strolling -- and play a nice German beer-barrel polka. It'd be a great sing-along that would put everyone in a better mood." San Francisco Chronicle 06/04/06
Posted: 06/04/2006 12:26 pm
A Share In A Great Violin Violinist Robert McDuffie wanted a great violin but couldn't afford the cost himself. "So he incorporated, setting up 1737 del Gesu Partners, L.P., and convinced 16 friends and acquaintances (including himself) to invest in the instrument. The return on equity? Two private concerts a year, a share in any profits when McDuffie sells the violin in 2024 — and the pleasure of seeing and hearing a master play a masterpiece." Toronto Star 06/04/06
Posted: 06/04/2006 12:07 pm
Salsa's Superstar Label Gets Back In The Game "In its heyday, from the late 1960's through the 70's, Fania, like Motown, had a superstar-packed roster, a virtual monopoly on salsa's A-list." But the label fell on hard times. "Dozens of its most important recordings are out of print, and others were so shoddily transferred to CD — often directly from the original vinyl — as to be virtually unlistenable. Now, though, a Fania revival is stirring." The New York Times 06/04/06
Posted: 06/04/2006 10:34 am
The Small Missouri Orchestra That Marshalls A Big Orchestra Marshall, Missouri is a small town of about 12,000, but its pride and joy is its symphony orchestra. "Marshall for years has touted itself as the nation's smallest city with its own symphony. The designation may be apocryphal — contenders include the Red Cedar Symphony in Rice Lake, Wis., population 8,350 — but no one can deny that Marshall is mad about music. More than just the brass and woodwinds, a Marshall Philharmonic concert is a testament to the ties forged in small-town America." Los Angeles Times 06/03/06
Posted: 06/04/2006 10:22 am
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Major Zankel Gift To Carnegie Hall Philanthropist Arthur Zankel gave Carnegie Hall $10 million to build a theatre. Now, in his death he has given Carnegie an even bigger gift. "According to the terms of the bequest, Carnegie Hall will end up receiving at least $22 million, the second-largest gift in its history, for its endowment. Proceeds estimated at about $1 million a year will go toward paying for performances and educational projects at Zankel Hall." The New York Times 06/03/06
Posted: 06/04/2006 11:07 am
Getty Decides On A Transparent Future The Getty will make public much of its finances. "We have some reputation rebuilding to do, and one way to do it is to be open and transparent. This grew out of the reforms that were passed by the board of trustees at the April meeting." Los Angeles Times 06/04/06
Posted: 06/04/2006 10:14 am
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McCoy Tyner At 67 "He has translated what life has told him into music over the course of dozens of albums and thousands of live gigs going back to 1959, when he made his professional debut with the Art Farmer-Benny Golson Jazztet. A year after that, he joined saxophonist John Coltrane's quartet, and basically paved the road that most post-bebop jazz pianists followed, and still do." San Francisco Chronicle 06/04/06
Posted: 06/04/2006 12:20 pm
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Does The Regional Tony Mean Anything? "On Broadway the Tonys sometimes help winning shows and sometimes make no difference at all. When the Tony lands at a regional theater, its effect is no more predictable. The winners of the regional award have varied widely." The New York Times 06/04/06
Posted: 06/04/2006 11:00 am
Broadway Directives This season on Broadway illustrated the worth of good directors. "The battle between art and commerce on what we occasionally still call the Great White Way, continues as ever. But the happy surprise this year is that if you focus on the ample good work being done — and ignore the largely crass cacophony of the season's musical fare, or the soulless star vehicles that will always be around — you might just be able to convince yourself that it's a fair fight." The New York Times 06/04/06
Posted: 06/04/2006 10:56 am
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The Cooking Writer As Plagiarist Mrs Beeton was the legendary cooking writer. But a new biography accuses her of plagiarizing everything. "Isabella Beeton was only 21 when she began cookery writing. Her first recipe for Victoria sponge was so inept that she left out the eggs. Seven years later she was dead. How did she come to write the seminal book? 'The answer is she copied everything'." The Guardian (UK) 06/02/06
Posted: 06/04/2006 12:51 pm
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Newspapers Are Killing Off Established Critics (But Why?) "Daily newspapers are losing circulation, Hollywood advertising and their influence over moviegoers. As publishers struggle to hang on to their readers via online content, blogs and podcasts, some are replacing experienced critics with younger, less expensive models. Newspaper editors seem to believe hiring a younger critic will help them build a wider demo... But when established critics stop reviewing, they often leave behind a gaping hole." Hollywood Reporter 06/02/06
Posted: 06/04/2006 1:09 pm
Pakistan Bans Da Vinci Code Pakistan has a small Christian community. But they've been protesting the movie. "Culture Minister Ghulam Jamal said the film was blasphemous. The screen adaptation of Dan Brown's book revolves around the theory that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and their descendants survive today. A number of states in India have banned the film, although the federal censors have cleared it for release." BBC 06/04/06
Posted: 06/04/2006 9:52 am
- More Indian States Ban Da Vinci Code "The release of the movie could have led to demonstrations and trouble," said Andhra Pradesh's special chief secretary, Paul Bhuyan. Andhra Pradesh is the seventh Indian state to have banned the screening of the film, which was released in May." BBC 06/04/06
Posted: 06/04/2006 9:45 am
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The Complicated Robbins "By all accounts Jerome Robbins was a complicated, sometimes joyful, sometimes tortured, often angry man, so it is no surprise that his reputation remains complex. At his best, at least, Robbins managed to bend classical dancers and steps to his purposes. However uneven his ballets may have been — and Balanchine had some clunkers too — there are those of us who remain deeply moved by Robbins's greatest late ballets: those made after he had rejoined the City Ballet fold in 1969, the prodigal son, and was working in a largely classical idiom with Balanchine-trained dancers." The New York Times 06/04/06
Posted: 06/04/2006 10:50 am
Reinventing the Ballerina Everyone's been talking about American Ballet Theatre's spectacular male dances. But Gillian Murphy offers a new model for a woman dancer, writes Apollinaire Sherr. Newsday 06/04/06
Posted: 06/04/2006 9:21 am
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