A cigarette tax approved by Cleveland-area voters to support the arts is about to result in a first payout of $15m for 68 cultural organizations. “Dollar amounts are based on budget size, with proportionately more money going to smaller organizations.”
Author: sbergman
How The Net Is Saving Classical Record Sales
“Pop music can be sold by even the most uncooperative dolt. Classical music, meanwhile, should be the domain of experts. Mercifully, the internet is eradicating from the planet this unique retail model in which the vendor, knowing insultingly little about the product, dictates the terms of the transaction.”
Bomb Scare At ROM Turns Out To Be Art Project
“A student at the Ontario College of Art and Design turned himself into police with his lawyer Thursday night after a multimedia bomb hoax at the Royal Ontario Museum on Wednesday night… He has been suspended from OCAD for non-academic mischief. Two faculty members have also been suspended with pay.”
More Back & Forth In Writers’ Strike
“Hollywood studios presented a new contract offer to striking film and TV writers Thursday that the studios said would pay writers millions of dollars extra for shows created for the Internet. But writers said some of the proposals amounted to rollbacks and said studios should adopt their counteroffer.”
Strike Was Short, But Brutal
“While Broadway was thrilled to be back in business yesterday – curtain up, light the lights! – you didn’t see any stagehands or producers doing victory laps around Times Square. Bloodied and exhausted, both sides gave up a lot to get a deal.”
Wait – Carson Daly Has Writers?
Late-night talk show host Carson Daly has taken his show back into production despite the ongoing writers’ strike, the first such host to do so. “If NBC hoped Daly’s return would demonstrate the air was safe on the other side of the picket line, it does not seem to have achieved that result.”
Getting Back On Track
In the wake of the now-settled stagehands’ strike, everyone from producers to ticket brokers to tourists seems to be scrambling to be sure that everyone who wants a ticket to a Broadway show can get one. So far, demand is high.
Miami Art Museum Unveils Evolving Design
“In unveiling a design today by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the museum plans to portray [the plans for a new museum building] as an interim stage in the development of its $220 million project overlooking Biscayne Bay.”
New New Museum An Architectural Hit
“Designed by the Japanese firm Sanaa, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, on the Bowery at Prince Street on the Lower East Side, is the kind of building that renews your faith in New York as a place where culture is lived, not just bought and sold.”
Talks In Jacksonville Lockout, But Little Hope
“Musicians were scheduled to meet Thursday with the management of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra to discuss a labor impasse, the first time the two sides have sat down since an impasse two weeks ago.” So far, there is no indication that anything has changed in either side’s position since the JSO locked out the musicians and began canceling concerts.