“‘Ian Campbell, Ann Spira Campbell and the opera have agreed to try and resolve their differences in an amicable manner and no further comments will be made at this time,’ opera officials said in a brief statement.” Ian had run the company for 31 of its 49 years, with now-ex-wife Ann as his deputy, until stakeholders rebelled at the sudden decision earlier this year to dissolve the company.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Judge To Detroit Creditors: No Taking The Art Off The Walls
“Judge Steven Rhodes ruled today that he won’t allow some of Detroit’s largest creditors to remove art from the walls at the Detroit Institute of Arts in order to inspect and appraise the works as part of the city’s bankruptcy.”
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Australia Slashes Arts Funding By $110M
“More than $28 million will be cut from the Australia Council [for the Arts], $33.8m from arts programs ran by the Attorney-General’s department, $25.1m from Screen Australia and $9.4m from the indigenous languages support program.”
Artistry’s Delicate Balance
“Does virtuosity underpin or undermine a 21st-century approach to ballet?”
Roadside Poem Combats Pollution – Literally
“‘Poetry makes nothing happen,’ William Butler Yeats once wrote. But then he never got a chance to read ‘In Praise of Air,’ a poem by Simon Armitage just installed on a building along a busy road at the University of Sheffield, England, and billed as the world’s first bit of air-cleansing verse.”
Cameron Mackintosh Aims London Revival Of ‘Miss Saigon’ For Broadway
And the Engineer will be played by an Asian actor this time around.
Could ‘Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind’ Become Reality?
“Now, with 20% of 2.3 million war veterans coping with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the US, the engineering of traumatic memories now is more than a philosophical curiosity [or conceit of a film], but a medical priority. A definitive study published early this year has now claimed memory adjustment from the domain of fiction: Researchers were able to modify the distant recollections of fear in mice, opening way to novel PTSD therapeutics in the future.”
Warhol Paintings Pull In $103.9M At Blockbuster Christie’s Auction
Race Riot sold for $62.9 million and White Marilyn drew $41 million – and there were works by Newman, Rothko and Bacon that went for even more in an evening that brought in a total of $744.9 million.
Philadelphia’s Newest Art Venue Is A Railroad Corridor
A very heavily traveled corridor, too: the track between North Philadelphia and 30th Street Station. Big swathes of the blighted landscape that commuters usually see out their windows are now covered with washes and patterns of hot pink, brilliant orange and white or neon green.