“The National Gallery in London wants to buy a portrait by Pontormo that its aristocratic owner sold to an oversees buyer for more than £30m last year. Unusually, the seller paid inheritance tax on Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap (1530) before its new owner applied for an export licence. The National Gallery therefore hopes that the Treasury will refund the tax paid to help keep the portrait in the UK.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Maestras: Four Top Women Conductors Talk About Cracking The Glass Ceiling
Marin Alsop, Susanna Mälkki, Barbara Hannigan, and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla talk with Michael Cooper about gendered gestures, their careers, and the progress that’s been made within a generation.
How Sergei Polunin, Ballet’s Gifted Train Wreck, Turned Himself Around
“I was sort of sabotaging myself,” says the now-26-year-old – who became a Royal Ballet principal at 19 and got compared to Nureyev and even Nijinsky – of the turbulent period that saw him storm away from Covent Garden and later from Moscow’s Stanislavsky Theater, which took him in after he burned his London bridges. Then one YouTube video gradually changed everything.
Pittsburgh Symphony Contract Talks Running Down To The Wire
“The contract for the musicians of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is set to expire Sunday night, and while the symphony’s management and musicians have agreed not to discuss the negotiations with the media, messages from both sides are getting across.”
Louvre’s Attendance Down 20% So Far This Year
“In a phone conversation with a representative for the Louvre – which is the most-visited museum in the world – artnet News discovered that attendance from January through June dropped 20 percent compared to the previous year.”
Dance Is The Perfect Art Form For Export, Which Is A Business Opportunity For Companies
Anthony Missen, director of Britain’s Company Chameleon: “From [our company’s] perspective, dance as an international export works because our dance pieces are scalable. Working both indoors in theatres and studio venues, and outdoors at events and festivals, our work can be presented in small squares, big plazas and huge theatres in sprawling cities, busy towns and relatively isolated rural communities. This flexibility means we can perform in a huge number of contexts and within a wide range of budgets.”
What’s The Key To Making An Arts Organization Resilient? The Workplace Culture
“The key point for leaders to realise is that a culture exists in your workplace whether you like it or not. And that’s the point: to develop and co-create a culture, you need to be ‘intentional’ about it. If you don’t think about it, it’s going to emerge anyway and, more often than not, you won’t like what you find.”
Opera Omaha’s Ex-Music Director Sentenced To Prison For Stealing From His Disabled Mother
“Through Wednesday, John C. Gawf Jr. visited his mother, who suffers from dementia, every day at her nursing home. He also stole $113,000 from her bank account over an eight-month period to fuel his gambling addiction. Thursday, [he] was sentenced to one to two years prison on one count of abuse of a vulnerable adult.”
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Ancient Egyptian Texts Collected And Published In English For First Time
Other than The Book of the Dead, few of the texts that have survived from the age of the pharaohs have been accessible to the general reader. “Tales of shipwreck and wonder, first-hand descriptions of battles and natural disasters, songs and satires make up [a new] anthology, titled Writings from Ancient Egypt.”