Musicians of the Louisville Orchestra’s musicians say they’ll accept a two-year wage freeze and stop trying to get the orchestra to cover the cost of dependent health insurance. In return, the players want the orchestra to agree to mediation for their new contract.
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Dutch Agree To Return Old Masters
The Dutch government will return more than 200 paintings to the family of a Jewish art dealer. The paintings were looted by Nazis in World War II. “The paintings, by Rubens, Rembrandt, Goya and other well-known painters, are valued at hundreds of millions of dollars. They will be returned to the family of Jacques Goudstikker, a major pre-war art collector who fled the Netherlands shortly before the German invasion in May 1940.”
Hip-hop – Taking It Inside
Hip-hop is mainstream, so why shouldn’t it be in theatres? “Hip-hop culture and hip-hop forms are massive now, all around the world. So it should be in the theatre, just like any culture can exist in the theatre. It’s just movement in a black box. It’s lighting in a black box. It’s sound in a black box. And once we have those components, then you do what you do.”
Where Are The Women? Everywhere But At The Top
“Traditionally, if you look at our cultural institutions, most of them employ women in equal numbers. Women are certainly prominent in middle management. There is no question that women are good at what they’re doing – but what they’re generally doing is supporting male directors. There are, for sure, some art galleries with women directors. But if you start looking at national museums and galleries, no, there aren’t. And if you start looking at orchestras in general, no again; we’ve got one woman director of an orchestra [the LSO]. There are fantastically few women film scriptwriters. Why should that be? These are bastions of male leadership.”
The Global Theatre (Who Needs It?)
It’s easy to “think of globalisation as sneakers made in sweatshops in Malaysia, McDonalds’s golden arches in Turkestan or call centres in Delhi.” But globalism is a potent force in the theatre too, and maybe not a good one…
Knight: Five Ideas For The Getty
The Getty has seen its reputation tarnished over a series of missteps. Christopher Knight has five ideas he thinks would put Getty at the center of LA’s cultural life.
The Case Of The Mysterious JT Leroy
“A central figure in the case of the mysterious writer JT Leroy has come forward to say that no one named JT Leroy exists, and that the books published under that name were actually written by a San Francisco woman named Laura Albert.”
The Museum Visitor Who Broke The Art
Last month a man tripped down some stairs in a museum and broke some Chinese vases. “Nick Flynn, of Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire, said disaster struck after he realised he had gone up the wrong staircase and swung around to come down. He trod on his untied shoelace and fell forward. ‘I was trying to grab hold of something but the walls were smooth marble and I couldn’t stop myself’.”
Like The Concert, Go Home With The CD
John Eliot Gardiner is offering audiences for his new concert an instant recording. “As audiences leave Sir John Eliot’s concert at Cadogan Hall in London, they will be able to walk away with a live recording of the music played in the first half of the evening – Mozart’s Symphonies Nos 39 and 41 – produced by his own label, SDG.”
Harper Collins Online
Harper Collins has announced plans to offer excerpts of books it publishes for free on the internet. “We hope this pilot will demonstrate a win-win for publishers, authors and search engines. The new era does not need to be a zero sum game.”