December 1999 – Page 10 – ArtsJournal Wayback

THE MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE

A Havana drama with several happy endings. – New York Times

Previously: MAKING GOOD MUSIC AND NEW FRIENDS: – Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 12/18/99
And: WHOOPS: Milwaukee Symphony watches as Havana’s air traffic controllers deny landing permission to a cargo plane carrying many of the orchestra’s larger instruments. – Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 12/17/99
And: SYMPHONIC DIPLOMACY: Since the fall of communism it’s been years since a visiting orchestra has come to Havana. – Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 12/16/99
And: Interview with Milwaukee music director – St. Petersburg Times 12/16/99

AMERICAN TV NETWORKS –

– avoid NAACP boycott on diversity after meeting. Los Angeles Times

FUTURE OF THE FRENCH ART MARKET

On Wednesday the French National Assembly takes up the question of making auctions an ordinary commercial activity. Up to now auctions have been a privilege granted to judiciary officers. Predictably, with no rational regulated system, the art auction market has not flourished in France. ARTNewspaper.com

OLD MASTERS SURGE

At London art sales last week, Old Master paintings followed Impressionists with a run-up in sales prices. London Telegraph

CITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

Glasgow’s year-long celebration of architecture and design comes to a close. Some lessons and reflections. The Guardian

WISH LIST FOR THE ART WORLD

If Thomas Hoving could have anything … Artnet.com

REPORTING THE ARTS

Authors of a National Arts Journalism Program study on arts coverage in America have it wrong, maintains one critic. It isn’t so much the coverage of art that is the problem as the art itself. “High Art is no longer even a hard sell. It is an impossible sell, except as a macabre spectacle.” The Idler

Month: December 1999