“The Museum of Sex,” which is a for-profit company, “has a tax-exempt affiliate, known as the Muse Foundation of New York, that takes in tax-deductible donations for the museum’s collection. … The arrangement is far from typical, though, according to several lawyers who specialize in tax matters involving foundations.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Lynn Redgrave, Actress Turned Playwright, Dies At 67
“[A]s both a deft comedian and a commanding dramatic actress she carved out a varied career, playing parts in Shakespeare and Shaw and on ‘Fantasy Island.’ In the last two decades, she started on a new professional path as a writer. At her death she was at work on a solo show, her fourth play to draw on her family history.”
Far From Shriveling, Off-Broadway Gets Ready To Grow
“Just a few years ago, off-Broadway was facing its final curtain call. Theaters with fewer than 500 seats–the dividing line between off-Broadway and Broadway venues–were being shuttered at a rapid pace and producers were abandoning Broadway’s lower-priced cousin. Now, a revival is under way.”
NYC: Shepard Fairey Mural Is Illegal Advertising, Must Go
New York City’s Department of Buildings has “issued a stop work order” to the owners of the downtown land “where Fairey’s mural was erected last month. The buildings department said the owners did not have a permit to erect a structure in the area and that the mural violated zoning laws prohibiting advertising on the property.”
From Amway Heirs, $22.5M To Educate Arts Managers
“Kennedy Center president Michael M. Kaiser said the gift from Betsy and Dick DeVos will help arts administrators for nonprofit organizations get specialized training” at “the Kennedy Center’s 9-year-old arts management institute, which has trained about 4,000 arts administrators in long-term planning, marketing and other areas.”
Liberal Dems’ Nick Clegg Explains Why Beckett Is His Hero
“Every time I go back to Beckett he seems more subversive, not less; his works make me feel more uncomfortable than they did before. The unsettling idea, most explicit in Godot, that life is habit – that it is all just a series of motions devoid of meaning – never gets any easier.”
Blaze Destroys A Portland Bookstore
“A bookseller mourned the loss of his livelihood and more than 100,000 books as firefighters continued extinguishing a three-alarm fire that engulfed the Great Northwest Bookstore on Sunday. … In Portland’s dwindling rare and used book community, some say the store has long been a major player.”
At Middle School, Learning To Write A Pop Song
“The conceit is simple:” The members of a local roots-rock band “conduct a day of workshops with students selected by teachers for their writing and musical skills. … The band returns in a few days to perform the new song in front of the student body, no doubt giving the budding writers and musicians cachet among their peers.”
Mr. President, Please Look Like You’re Enjoying The Music
“I think the strongest message the White House could send to our nation about classical music is that it’s actually enjoyable. There’s a certain gravitas associated with the office of the president, but music should represent a way to break free of that. There’s no better way to send a signal about the benefits of classical music than to show Obama having fun listening to it.”
With Dance At The White House, We Could All Loosen Up
“I’m envisioning Michelle Obama, a dance fan in her Chicago years, as the White House impresario. She and new White House social secretary Julianna Smoot could start with the modern-dance classics: the Graham company performing ‘Appalachian Spring,’ with a live orchestra playing the shimmering Copland score.”