Lauder Raising Money For Klimts? Ronald Lauder has raised $190 million. Could he be thinking of trying to buy more Klimts for his Neue Gallerie when they come up for auction? "Each one would have something to add to the Neue Galerie’s collection, but if the buyer is not the Neue Galerie, I hope they will end up in other museums."
The Art Newspaper 10/05/06 Posted: 10/05/2006 11:23 pm
Star Focus - Where Are They? The century is still young, but Richard Cork wonders where the new art stars are. "Looking around, I can find no equivalents to the precocious titans who, precisely 100 years ago, overturned all existing ideas about the future direction of art."
New Statesman 10/08/06 Posted: 10/05/2006 9:00 pm
Mexico To Churches: Make Records The Mexican government is asking churches to catalogue their artwork. "Mexico has a wealth of colonial art, including paintings, sculptures, stained glass and sacred objects, spread among its churches. But a demand for such works among collectors has made the contents of rural parishes a tempting target for thieves."
CBC 10/05/06 Posted: 10/05/2006 6:56 pm
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Music Downloads Bolster Recording Biz "Physical album sales so far this year totaled 370.5 million units, down 8.3% from the 404.2 million racked up in the year-ago period. However, digital album sales climbed 115%, with 22.6 million sold through September. Downloaded tracks soared 72%, to 418.6 million." Yahoo (Reuters) 10/05/06
Posted: 10/05/2006 7:06 pm
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Univeristy of Chicago Has Big Arts Dreams They include hiring a star architect and building a $100 million arts center. "Citing a litany of star arts alumni - among them novelist Philip Roth, film director Mike Nichols, composer Philip Glass and the writer Susan Sontag - Danielle Allen, dean of the university's humanities division, said: "We'd like to see a building that will raise the profile of the really exciting - but heretofore stealth - arts world on our campus." Chicago Tribune 10/04/06
Posted: 10/05/2006 7:02 pm
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Principally Haitink Bernard Haitink is taking up duties as principal conductor of the Chicago Symphony. "Now he takes up his new duties in Chicago in what he calls the autumnal period of his life, and it is clear that he does not see this as a long-term proposition. 'Every conductor, including myself, has a sell-by date'." The New York Times 10/06/06
Posted: 10/06/2006 7:56 am
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Insuring Against Terror In The Theatre So you're thinking of going to the Russian theatre but you've heard some dicey stories? "Theatre audiences in Russia will soon be able to buy insurance against a terrorist attack or some other catastrophe befalling them during the performance." The Guardian (UK) 10/05/06
Posted: 10/05/2006 7:47 pm
Man The Barricades - Les Miz In The Record Books! "This weekend Les Misérables will prove the doubters wrong and set a benchmark when it becomes the world's longest-running musical. Apart from the 21 years it has been running in London, a further 56 professional companies have opened it in 38 countries and 223 cities. With more than 38,000 professional performances worldwide, an astonishing - and estimated - 54 million people have seen it." The Guardian (UK) 10/05/06
Posted: 10/05/2006 7:46 pm
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Are Publishing Killing The Blogger Craze? Publishers are paying enormous advances for bloggers. "It's like the dot-com boom all over again. In the same way that publishers knew they needed a Web site even if they didn't know what that was, they're just buying up blogs because they're hot." Yahoo! (Reuters) 10/06/06
Posted: 10/06/2006 9:45 am
Why Amazon Rankings Matter "Why are we first-time authors so obsessed with the Amazon rankings? Partly because, like pretending to do your tax return or essential research, it offers yet another displacement activity to avoid the real hard business of writing. But it's also because once your book is out there, all alone in the big wide world, you desperately want to know if it's thriving or has got completely lost - and for a considerable period nobody can tell you." The Guardian (UK) 10/03/06
Posted: 10/06/2006 7:30 am
Lit Nobel Announced Next Week "There is no short list of possible winners, but buzz has centred on Syrian poet Adonis, whose real name is Ali Ahmad Said, and controversial Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk. Other contenders, at least in the eyes of the media and on betting Web sites, include Americans Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth and Swedish poet Thomas Transtromer." The Globe & Mail (Canada) 10/06/06
Posted: 10/06/2006 7:29 am
A New Robert Frost? Um, Okay... Why was there such a flurry of excitement when a Robert Frost poem was recently discovered? "There are a number of unpublished poems that scholars know of, residing in several libraries, that he never chose to publish."
Chronicle of Higher Education 10/05/06
Posted: 10/05/2006 7:40 pm
Google Goes Literate Google is launching a Web site "dedicated to literacy, pulling together its books, video, mapping and blogging services to help teachers and educational organizations share reading resources." Yahoo! (Reuters) 10/05/06
Posted: 10/05/2006 7:08 pm
Is Poetry Still Relevant? "People were perhaps put off by the way it was taught, searching for meaning and sociological context. Poetry isn't about that, it goes straight to the heart, the brain, the guts if you like." BBC 10/05/06
Posted: 10/05/2006 6:54 pm
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Google To Buy YouTube? That's the rumor. "YouTube users watch more that 100 million videos daily, and the site's market share tops that of similar services offered by Google and other popular Web sites, according to some research firms." Yahoo! (AP) 10/06/06
Posted: 10/06/2006 9:42 am
Bestseller To Movie Blockbuster? (Nah) So you have hopes that your bestselling book will be made into a movie and you'll be rich? Not so fast. "For every hundred books optioned for movies, I doubt that more than five get made into films," Yahoo! (Reuters) 10/06/06
Posted: 10/06/2006 9:39 am
Fox Moves Primetime Shows On Web Fox airs baseball playoffs over the next month. So how to keep viewers hooked on the network's regular programming? Put the shows on the web. "The move is an attempt to keep ratings momentum going in October and November, when many Fox prime-time shows are pre-empted by Major League Baseball playoff games and the World Series." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 10/06/06
Posted: 10/06/2006 8:23 am
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Glimmer Of Hope For Dance In Oakland "As Oakland arts lovers are still smarting from the Oakland Ballet's closure, Ronn Guidi is back. 'Ronn Guidi's 'Nutcracker' will run four performances, Dec. 22-24, at the Paramount Theatre, with live music from the Oakland East Bay Symphony. The return of this 33-year tradition is also the first glimmer of possible regeneration for ballet in Oakland." San Francisco Chronicle 10/06/06
Posted: 10/06/2006 8:54 am
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