Believe you might be owed money from the settlement of the $512 million settlement of the Christie’s/Sotheby’s price-fixing suit? Time’s running out to get in on the settlement…
Tag: 02.13.03
Barnes Collection Future Begins In Court
Legal wrangling over the future of the Barnes Collection outside Philadelphia has begun. The foundation is trying to move to Philadelphia, but is being challenged by Lincoln University, which currently appoints board members to oversee the Barnes. The university wants to keep control of the board, and objects to the move. Tuesday a judge granted Lincoln full status in the case, denying the same to other parties that have interests in the Barnes. The Barnes says it will go bankrupt if it is not allowed to move.
Library Of Congress Gets Digital Money
The Library of Congress will get $100 million collect and preserve digital information, including images, CD’s, Web pages and electronic journals. The Library has been “lagging in the task of archiving electronica: scholarly journals, books and magazines that are ‘born digital’; CD-ROM’s; digital photographs, music and films; and millions of miscellaneous pieces of Internet-based material. Digital technology “has spawned a surfeit of information that is extremely fragile, inherently impermanent, and difficult to assess for long-term value.”
Creatives Vs. Bean Counters – Who Should Prevail?
The “combination of financial foundering and artistic success sums up the challenge of running an arts organisation. Which do you put first: the art or the accounts? Given that it is tough to find curators, opera administrators or artistic directors who are as good at managing as they are at having creative ideas, who do you put in charge: a bean counter who can balance the books, or the visionary with no head for figures?” The answer, every time, has got to be…
New Name, New Logo, Less Staff – Arts Council England Relaunches
The Arts Council of England has relaunched itself as Arts Council England, with a new logo and 100 fewer staff. Now there will be just the Arts Council, with regional offices, one telephone number and one application form for artists, replacing more than 100 different grants schemes.” The council says the changes would “save almost £20m over the next three years, and £8m a year after that, all to be ploughed back into the arts.”
You Send Me – The Top Ten Most Romantic Albums
Just in time for Valentine’s Day – What are the top ten most romantic albums ever recorded? The Telegraph’s pop music critics have their say… (Roberta Flack? Really?)
The First Titian Show In 400 Years (In Britain)
Titian was one of the great painters of the Renaissance. The great biographer Vasari concluded that “Titian had invented a new form of art ‘made up of bold strokes and blobs, beautiful and astonishing because it makes paintings seem alive.” Every painter that has followed him has been influenced by his work in some way. So why, in 400 year, has there never been a British exhibition of his work? Now London’s National Gallery has managed to beg and borrow more than 40 of Titian’s finest paintings for an exhibition of his work.