The controversial New York Philharmonic concert in North Korea will be aired across the US by PBS, in an unusual broadcast produced by ABC News.
Tag: 02.07.08
Getty Acquires Penn’s Working-Class Photos
“On Wednesday the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles announced that it had acquired the entire series, 252 full-length portraits of workers — waiters, bakers, butchers, rag-and-bone men — that it called [photographer Irving Penn’s] most extensive body of work.”
Inbal Headed To Prague
“Israel’s Eliahu Inbal has been selected to become the chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra… Inbal, 71, was assuming the post for the 2009-2010 season, replacing Zdenek Macal, who resigned last year after taking the job in 2003.”
Opera Coming To Jacksonville?
A retired opera singer and arts manager is hoping to raise $3m to start up a new opera company in Jacksonville, Florida. The company, which hopes to mount its first production in spring 2009, plans to stage three operas per season, and has signed the Jacksonville Symphony to accompany its shows.
£26m Buys A Lot Of Bacon
An important Francis Bacon painting sold at auction in London this week for £26.34 million, “breaking the record for any postwar and contemporary work of art sold in Europe… Almost 1,000 collectors, dealers and hangers-on descended on Christie’s in London to witness the sale as a barometer of the art market. “
DC’s Fancy New “Living Room”
Architect Norman Foster’s latest challenge was to revitalize the courtyard of the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum, and “the result is quite a departure in a city as architecturally conservative as Washington DC… Foster was eager to rekindle the history of the Smithsonian as a social-events building providing a large public living room.”
Forget The Renovations – Sydney Should Start Fresh
“What will Sydney get for the estimated $700 million to be spent on the planned overhaul of the Opera Theatre at the Sydney Opera House?” More to the point, wouldn’t the money be better spent building a whole new opera theater that actually functions the way its resident companies need it to?