The government of the Bosniak-Croat federation has provided €25,000 to cover the museum’s unpaid utility bills, though an agreement with the Bosnian Serb republic to fund national cultural institutions over the long term remains elusive.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Next On Bosnia’s Endangered List: National Library
“Staff and visitors at the National and University Library began putting on extra layers on Friday, as the heating was switched off after the library failed to pay its bills. The library, in central Sarajevo, is facing the same fate as Bosnia’s History Museum and Art Gallery, recently closed because they could not pay for basic operating costs.”
Pianist Alexis Weissenberg, 82
“[His] cool yet blazing approach divided reviewers. Where some heard impeccable technique, others heard soulless efficiency. Where some embraced the drama of his interpretations, others condemned them for aggressiveness.”
Director David Cromer On The Meaning Of Our Town
“People sometimes interpret the play as saying, ‘You have to live life every moment.’ I don’t know that I agree with that. It says that every moment is pretty stunning if you look at it, but you can’t live like that.”
Fisk Univ.-Crystal Bridges Art Deal In Jeopardy Again
“An appeals court upheld Fisk University’s right to sell a $30 million share in its famed Stieglitz art collection to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark. But Tennessee Attorney General Bob Cooper, who opposes the collection leaving Tennessee, has a Jan. 28 deadline to challenge that ruling.”
Neil LaBute Tries His Hand At Visual Art
“Neil LaBute – visual artist? Well, sort of. The playwright-filmmaker known for his oft-disturbing and provocative works has applied his subversive wit to a new collaboration with photographer Gerald Slota.”
Omus Hirshbein, Classical Music Impresario, Dead At 77
A co-founder of the New York Chamber Symphony and (briefly) a top official at the US National Endowment for the Arts, Hirshbein is best remembered for reviving the concert series at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y and turning it into a major force in New York’s cultural life.
Straddling The Line Between Dance, Theater And Stand-Up Comedy
Over five years of collaboration, Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith have been “steadily honing their particular brand of comic, talky and vaudevillian dance-theater in which they subject their gay man-straight woman friendship, creative process and the tropes of contemporary dance to microscopic scrutiny.”
Hollywood To Depict Art Historians As War Heroes
George Clooney will direct and co-star in “The Monuments Men, a look at the art historians who landed at Normandy to rescue art looted by Adolf Hitler.”
Drunken Woman Punches Out (And Moons) $30M Clyfford Still Painting
“A 36-year-old Denver woman, apparently drunk, leaned against an iconic Clyfford Still painting worth more than $30 million last week, punched it, slid down it [with her bare bottom] and urinated on herself, according to a criminal case against Carmen Lucette Tisch.”