Fisk University “tried to break up and sell part of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of modern art, given to the university by Stieglitz’s widow, renowned painter Georgia O’Keeffe,” but a judge ruled that O’Keefe’s rules prohibited such a transaction. Now, some are hoping that the ruling might actually bring Fisk together with Nashville’s wealthy elite to put the school on firmer fiscal footing, without selling a bunch of art.
Author: sbergman
CBC Slashing Classical Radio Service
Canada’s CBC Radio 2, which traditionally has aired classical music nearly around the clock, is undergoing a dramatic overhaul which will see classical largely confined to a midday show. Mornings will feature a mix of classical and soft pop, and afternoon drive will be all pop, with an emphasis on Canadian artists.
Canadian TV More American Than Ever
“Canada’s biggest commercial television networks spent $107-million more on foreign programming last year than they did to make domestic shows, the widest gap between Hollywood productions and locally made content the industry has ever seen.”
The Strike Is Over, And… Cable Won?
“If you get the distinct impression that the networks are mailing it in, well, guess what? Your gut is good… Without using the word ‘collusion’ unnecessarily, it’s not a big leap of imagination to say that the networks have essentially given up. The scrubs are on the field.”
Taxes & Censorship Roiling Canadian Film Industry
“Will the Harper government go forward with what seems to many an insidious back-door way of stifling freedom of creative expression and introducing ugly censorship mechanisms disguised as tax reforms? …And will anyone ever get a look at those guidelines that are allegedly at the heart of the matter, or would be, if only they existed?”
Newsman To Publishers: Fact-Checking Isn’t That Hard
If the publishing world ever wants to get away from the seemingly perpetual literary frauds that have left it with egg on its face over the past several years, says Bob Thompson, it simply must get past the silly idea that fact checking is too cumbersome a process for publishers to engage in. If your memoirist is claiming to have lived with a pack of wolves to escape Nazi oppression, for instance, you might want to make a phone call or two.
Meyerhoff Estate To Join National Gallery
“Robert E. Meyerhoff, a Baltimore philanthropist who has one of the world’s outstanding collections of post-World War II paintings, has received county approval to turn his Maryland estate into a museum that will be part of the National Gallery of Art.”
Met Unveils New Season With Nod To Its Past
New York’s Metropolitan Opera is planning a gala performance in March 2009 to celebrate the company’s 125th birthday. The 2008-09 season will also include a new production of John Adams’s “Dr. Atomic,” five other new productions, and an expansion of the Met’s popular digital simulcasts in movie theaters worldwide.
Plenty Of Blame To Go Around In Latest Lit Fraud
“One day after the author of ‘Love and Consequences’ confessed that she had made up the memoir about her supposed life as a foster child in gang-infested South-Central Los Angeles, the focus turned to her publisher and the news organizations that helped publicize what appeared to be a searing autobiography.”
The Growing Allure Of The 5-String
String instruments have four strings. They just do. Any standard string instrument with more or less than four strings is either a gimmick or broken. But wait: 5-string violins (which have the four violin strings plus a viola’s C,) are gaining popularity among teachers, fiddlers, and any number of other serious musicians.