“Louisville Orchestra musicians rejected the board’s offer Thursday to settle a nearly yearlong contract dispute through binding arbitration, calling the details of the proposal ‘draconian’.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Opposition To Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial Going McCarthyite?
Christopher Knight calls out a conservative group whose campaign against Gehry’s very un-Neoclassical design for the monument includes, as Knight sees it, guilt by association and smears against an artist whom Gehry used as a consultant regarding the memorial’s sculpture.
Julie Taymor And Spider-Man Producers Reach Partial Settlement
“As part of the settlement, the producers said they have agreed to pay Taymor full royalties for her services as director of the New York production. … The settlement also provides for other payments to Taymor as a ‘collaborator’ when the show’s New York production recoups its investment.”
Who Is Cindy Sherman? Don’t Look At Her Self-Portraits To Find Out
“Over the course of her remarkable 35-year career she has transformed herself into hundreds of different personas: the movie star, the valley girl, the angry housewife, the frustrated socialite, the Renaissance courtesan, the menacing clown, even the Roman god Bacchus. … ‘None of the characters are me,’ she explained … They’re everything but me.”
Christopher Wheeldon To Create New Cinderella
The new full-length version of the fairy tale is a co-commission of the Dutch National Ballet, where it will premiere this December, and San Francisco Ballet, which will present the work in 2013.
UK Musicians Demand Airlines Standardize Rules For Transporting Instruments
“British musicians are calling for a consistent policy on carrying instruments on planes across airlines, after a similar bill was passed in the US. … The Musicians’ Union is asking the British government to standardise requirements because ‘musicians regularly have problems taking their instruments on planes due to inconsistent policies from airlines and extortionate fees’.”
Bourne Identity Director Is Crowd-Sourcing Documentary On Torture
In a collaboration with PEN American Center and the ACLU, Doug Liman “will create a feature-length film whose script is compiled from various documents on prisoner abuse and torture [during the Bush administration’s War on Terror] … and whose footage will consist of user-submitted videos of their readings of these documents.”
Wikipedia, Truth, Verifiability And ‘Undue Weight’
Historian Timothy Messer-Kruse found a serious error of fact in a Wikipedia article on his particular locus of research. He corrected the error, with citations to the primary sources he’d studied, and his changes were undone within minutes. That was just the beginning …
Should We Just Do Away With Black History Month?
Documentary filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman (yes, he’s African-American) suggests that Black History Month is “a double-edged sword that ghettoizes black stories into the shortest month of the year and discourages further attention on them in the remaining months.”
Marina Abramovic To Create Performance Art Museum
“Marina Abramovic signed a deal with architect Rem Koolhaas earlier this week to design and construct her Center for the Preservation of Performance Art in Hudson, New York. … and the museum will be devoted to performance art pieces of ‘six hours minimum.’ Some of them will go on for days.”