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Friday, September 8




Visual Arts

A Tax Law That Could Hurt Museums New tax law in America may make art collectors less willing to donate to museums. "This may be a calculation remote from most people's lives, but museum directors say they depend on this intricate system of financial incentives to stimulate people's generosity and attract works that the museum could never afford to buy. If the balance between the advantages of donating versus selling shifts, wealthy individuals will be much less likely to give a valuable painting or sculpture away." New York Sun 09/08/06
Posted: 09/08/2006 7:48 am

Austria's Greatest Art Thief Jailed The man who pulled off the biggest art theft in Austria has been sentenced to four years in jail. "Robert Mang stole the 16th century gold sculpture the 'Saliera' (Salt Cellar) from a glass showcase in Vienna's Art History Museum." BBC 09/07/06
Posted: 09/07/2006 8:40 pm

Pompidou Takes Responsibility For Damaged Artwork How did the Pompidou Museum damage an artwork from a show of Los Angeles art last spring? A museum investigation assigns the blame: "A restorer was called in to glue the metal ring in place, but her instructions to let the glue set for 24 hours were 'misinterpreted' by a Pompidou employee who hung the work that same day. It fell from the wall that night." The Art Newspaper 09/07/06
Posted: 09/07/2006 6:01 pm

  • Pompidou Offers To Pay To Recreate Damaged Art The museum has contacted the artists "to see if they would be interested in remaking the works as they are reproducible in the technical sense. We would, of course, assume the costs of the study and the fabrication." Bloomberg 09/07/06
    Posted: 09/07/2006 5:58 pm

The 9/11 Images That Won't Go Away So many piectures of 9/11. But how to make sense of it? "The technology exists to allow people to spend the rest of their lives re-creating that day, taking it apart minute-by-minute and trying to put it back together again. It is now buildings that rapidly disappear, while digital storage and retrieval of information offers the promise of images that don't fade and countless opportunities for enhancement, editing and playback of an experience." OpinionJournal.com 09/07/06
Posted: 09/07/2006 5:56 pm

A 3D Castiglione As a promotion for a show of art from the Louvre in Atlanta, animators have created 3D images of some of the art for a TV spot. "Most contemporary artists wouldn't allow their work to be doctored but because the Louvre pieces are hundreds of years old, 'we had a little more freedom'." Atlanta Journal-Constitution 09/07/06
Posted: 09/07/2006 5:49 pm

Reality Check - Can Art Change The World? "Most art world denizens would instinctively say yes. But if by "change" you mean, can art on its own change global warming, stop Iran's president from denying the Holocaust, or halt the spread of AIDS, the answer, I'm afraid, is no. In concert with other things, however, art can change the world incrementally and by osmosis." Village Voice 09/07/06
Posted: 09/07/2006 5:46 pm

WTC - A Forest Of Towers We finally get a look at the towers that will surround the World Trade Center site. Doesn't mean they'll really be built (WTC politics being what they are) but here they are. "The name-brand architects - Norman Foster of London; Richard Rogers, also of London; and Fumihiko Maki of Tokyo - tweaked the standard Manhattan office-building recipe rather than producing signature star turns." Bloomberg.com 09/07/06
Posted: 09/07/2006 5:43 pm

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Music

The Official Coltrane Jazz at Lincoln Center is throwing a John Coltrane party this season. "So let’s approach Jazz at Lincoln Center’s opening concerts of the new season, a series of shows based on the music of John Coltrane on the 80th anniversary of his birth, as beginner classes," writes Ben Ratliff. The New York Times 09/08/06
Posted: 09/08/2006 7:20 am

Gaddafi Opera Debuts (But Where's The Music?) London's English National Opera debuted its opera about Muammar Gaddafi Thursday night. "But fans of conventional opera rich in arias and romantic duets faced in 'Gaddafi: A Living Myth' a bewildering mix of musical styles and critics complained it contained precious little rap and no opera." Yahoo! (Reuters) 09/08/06
Posted: 09/08/2006 7:11 am

How Would You Fix The Proms? The Last Night at the Proms is a cliche chockablock full of traditions that everyone complains about. So how would you fix it? The Guardian takes a survey... The Guardian (UK) 09/08/06
Posted: 09/07/2006 7:10 pm

A New Trio Of Concert Halls Three new concert halls open this fall - in Nashville, Miami, and Costa Mesa, California. "Clearly, the live-performance hall game is a tricky one, especially when many companies struggle. From what can be seen in their near-complete state, the three new structures don't grab the passerby by the collar. Yet in spite of their lack of drama, they still may have the capacity to play a larger-than-life role in their communities because of what happens inside." Bloomberg 09/07/06
Posted: 09/07/2006 6:59 pm

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Arts Issues

The 9/11 Conspiracy Industry It's thriving, with thousands who have decided that official explanations of the events of 9/11 don't add up. "Distrust percolates more strongly near Ground Zero. A Zogby International poll of New York City residents two years ago found 49.3 percent believed the government consciously failed to act." Washington Post 09/08/06
Posted: 09/08/2006 7:59 am

Has Art Helped Make Sense Of 9/11? Slate asks a group of writers and critics about what art has helpd them sort out the attacks of 9/11... Slate 09/07/06
Posted: 09/07/2006 6:35 pm

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People

Denver Arts Icon, 94, Steps Aside Donald Seawell "created the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in 1972. The 12-acre Denver Performing Arts Complex covering four square blocks is the largest performing-arts facility in the nation at one location." Now he's 94 and stepping down as chairman after 34 years. "Seawell's transfer to 'chairman emeritus' marks what some are calling the most significant leadership shift at any Denver arts organization in the city's history." Denver Post 09/08/06
Posted: 09/08/2006 7:36 am

David Hockney At 70 "He seems sometimes nowadays to have changed unrecognisably. It is not just that he has grey hair and looks like the 69-year-old Yorkshireman he is. It is the polemics and debating fury that make him so different from the dreamy painter of men in swimming pools." The Guardian (UK) 09/07/06
Posted: 09/07/2006 7:03 pm

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Theatre

Drama Guild Prez Concedes To Critic John Weidman, president of the Dramatists Guild of America has apologized to Chicago Sun-Times theatre critic Hedy Weiss over her negative reviews of a workshop. "It now turns out that what I was told was untrue. That Weiss believed that the managers of Stages 2006 would be neither surprised nor distressed if she reviewed the eight presentations in question is now clear. I asserted otherwise. For that I apologize." Chicago Sun-Times 09/07/06
Posted: 09/07/2006 6:08 pm

No Bureaucracy Required Arts groups in New York have begun to despair of ever being granted their promised role at a rebuilt Ground Zero, but one Manhattan theatre company isn't waiting for the politicians to nix their contribution. "An experimental multimedia and theater company, 3-Legged Dog was located at Fiterman Hall, next to 7 World Trade Center, before the 9/11 attack destroyed its space." This week, the company opened "the new 3LD Art and Technology Center, a 12,500-square-foot warren of theaters and offices," just down the block from its old space. The New York Times 09/07/06
Posted: 09/07/2006 6:24 am

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Publishing

25 Years Of The New Criterion "Launched in 1982 by Hilton Kramer and the music critic Samuel Lipman, the magazine has outlasted T.S. Eliot's Criterion, which ran for 17 years. For a quarter of a century, the New Criterion has helped its readers distinguish achievement from failure in painting, music, dance, literature, theater, and other arts. The magazine, whose circulation is 6,500, has taken a leading role in the culture wars, publishing articles whose titles are an intellectual call to arms." New York Sun 09/08/06
Posted: 09/08/2006 7:39 am

Reading And Educating "This fall education is a particularly hot topic in publishing. New books raise a wealth of ticklish questions, beginning with the ones about wealthy kids. What got them into those Ivy League classrooms?" The New York Times 09/08/06
Posted: 09/07/2006 9:32 pm

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Media

TIFF Looking To Shock? This year's edition of the Toronto International Film Festival won't be short on controversy: films to be screened will include one about the assassination of George W. Bush; several about pedophilia, bestiality, and rape; and plenty of politics. Toronto Star 09/07/06
Posted: 09/07/2006 7:10 am

Apparently, "Reality-Based" Is Quite Different From "True" An ABC TV movie about the 9/11 attacks has stirred the national political pot, and the network has been making last-minute changes in an effort to address allegations of bias and inaccuracy from some on the left. "The movie dramatizes what it deems intelligence and operational failures of the Clinton and Bush administrations, relying heavily on public records... [But ABC] is tip-toeing away from the film's version of events. In a statement, the network said the miniseries 'is a dramatization, not a documentary, drawn from a variety of sources, including the 9/11 commission report, other published materials and from personal interviews.'" Los Angeles Times 09/07/06
Posted: 09/07/2006 6:44 am

NPR Cans Classical Shows; Minnesota Picks 'Em Up Two of public radio's most widely listened-to classical music programs are jumping halfway across the country. "Performance Today" and "SymphonyCast" have been dumped by the increasingly news-oriented National Public Radio, and will soon begin being produced by American Public Media, the national distribution arm of Minnesota Public Radio, which also distributes "A Prairie Home Companion," "Marketplace," and many other widely heard programs. "Performance Today" has been dropped by a number of stations over the last few years as classical music has become a tough sell with local stations. Washington Post 09/07/06
Posted: 09/07/2006 5:31 am

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Dance

Dance Up For Anything New York's Fall for Dance delivers a lot of dance for a tiny price. And it's been a huge hit with younger audiences. "Whatever its trickle-down effects, the festival has created a rare commodity in New York dance: audience that's game for anything. 'If you pay $100, there's an expectation — that you have the right to get a certain amount of something that you like. If you pay $10, it's more, ‘Let's see what we get'." New York Sun 09/08/06
Posted: 09/08/2006 7:44 am

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