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HOLOCAUST MUSEUM —

— names new chairman – a provocative New York rabbi and a founder of the museum. – Washington Post

TORONTO SYMPHONY votes –

– to go ahead with planned concerts in Austria. – CBC

PLAYING IN AUSTRIA: Musicians of the Toronto Symphony will decide Wednesday whether they will play scheduled concerts in Austria next month. – CBC 02/15/00

THE CAIRO INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR —

— is the largest in the Arab world. But the impressive size doesn’t necessarily mean it reflects the state of Arab-world publishing. – Al-Ahram (Egypt)

PBS series “The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization” successfully brings antiquity to life. “History is sometimes best told by ignoring contemporary academic disputes, and concentrating instead on the dramatic events of the past. Scholars who study the Classical period can have their enthusiasm unbottled when relieved of responsibility for ideological and political rectification by a skillful team of professional story-tellers.” – The Idler 02/16/00

TRANSLATABLE

At the Berlinale, a rush to add subtitles to every film is a time-consuming and often last-minute art. – Die Welt (Germany) 02/16/00

LET FREEDOM RING

Philadelphia’s Freedom Theatre, one of the city’s major African American cultural institutions, this week opens a new $7 million performing venue. The effort to open nearly killed it with debt. The enterprise is alive only by “slashing the staff by more than half, reducing the annual budget by a third, establishing a five-year plan of financial recovery, and raising money.”- Philadelphia Inquirer

BASQUIAT.NET

The estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat threaten legal action against a Basquiat fan website and shut it down. – The Art Newspaper

SLOW DOWN

In our frantic race towards modernization and productivity, we have begun to fear slowness – to equate leisure with the insidiousness of being idle. In “Slowness of Speed” eight Korean artists examine the notion of time in the traditional Oriental sense – where the boundary between past and present is much less defined than in the West – and the conflict between traditional values and the needs of modernization. – Korea Times

PITTSBURGH’S HEINZ ARCHITECTURAL CENTER —

— has hired Joseph Rosa, an architect and architectural historian, as its new curator. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette