Failing To Plan…?

Arts groups, particularly successful ones, are extremely susceptible to cults of personality surrounding their most visible leaders. Andrew Adler says that the star power of some arts leaders actually works against the long-term sustainability of the groups they lead, because such organizations frequently fail to plan for a future without their stars.

A Less Obvious Gehry

Architect Frank Gehry is designing another concert hall, this time in Miami, to house the New World Symphony, which bills itself as America’s orchestral training academy. But “in contrast to Gehry’s bravura landmarks such as the Guggenheim in Bilbao or the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, you won’t be able to take in the essential idea at a distance. This building won’t swoop, nor will it curve, bow, bend or dance. It is subtle rather than obvious — a building that requires participation, which is really the whole point.”