“A Jewish family from San Diego that has been seeking to recover a painting by Camille Pissarro that a relative sold during the Holocaust has received a legal victory from a panel of judges who ruled this week that the family can pursue the case, reversing an earlier court decision that had favored the painting’s present owner.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
L.A. County Museum Of Art Is Reviving Its Art-Meets-Tech Companies Program
But they’re doing it differently this time around – and the companies involved include Google and SpaceX.
The Last Great Vaudevillian (He’s Only Just Now Retiring)
John Lahr: “[Barry] Humphries’s retirement marks the end of the vaudeville tradition, whose singing, dancing, and low-comic folderol he almost single-handedly carried into the twenty-first century.” (Yes, that’s Dame Edna.)
Estelle Parsons, 86, Will Be Doing Eight Shows A Week This Spring
“[She] will return to Broadway in April in Eric Coble’s comedic play The Velocity of Autumn, which she recently performed at the Arena Stage in Washington in October.”
Much-Needed Good News From The Motor City: Detroit Symphony Turns A Financial Corner
“The city of Detroit may be in bankruptcy, but the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is back in the black. … The newly released figures suggested that the orchestra is recovering from a corrosive six-month strike that ended in 2011.”
Indianapolis Symphony (Finally!) Posts Surplus
“A big boost in donations and hefty cutbacks pushed the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s annual budget into the black for the first time since 2007.”
Weinstein Brothers Sue Warner Studios Again
“For the second time this year, the brothers Weinstein are in a legal dispute with the brothers Warner.” This time, it’s about the Hobbit films.
New Zealand Is Not Middle Earth!
Ed Power argues that, if Peter Jackson really wanted to represent the setting of Tolkien’s novel on screen, his homeland was exactly the wrong place to do it.
The Great Catalan Sport: Human Towers
“Jesús Zazo stood in the ancient plaza in a throng of other pink-clad members of the Colla Vella dels Xiquets club. He had everything riding on this grudge match in the Catalonia region’s signature competitive event: human-tower building.”
You Know Who Started The War On Christmas? The Pilgrims, That’s Who
“The real American crisis over the holiday happened centuries ago. Back then, the attackers were the Puritans – they hated Christmas, especially the fun parts. And they were experts at fighting it. “