Was he artist or illustrator? Who cares, asks the Chicago Historical Society, on the eve of the opening of the blockbuster Rockwell show. The show was so popular in Atlanta they couldn’t get all the people in who wanted to see it. – Chicago Tribune
Tag: 02.22.00
SWING LOW
New Paris footbridge across the Seine opens, then closes quickly after disconcerting swaying and “weird and wonderful” movement. – The Times (UK)
TRADE IN HORROR
Museums and exhibitions dedicated to the Holocaust have seen a growing commercialization in artifacts from the Holocaust. – The Globe and Mail (Canada)
POP! GOES THE …
A new kind of songwriter has infiltrated the soul of the Broadway musical – the pop-tune writer, who’s work plays as well alone on the radio (or skating rink) as it does onstage. – Chicago Tribune
CHARLOTTE CHURCH –
– is the biggest thing to hit the classical charts in recent years. Now the manager who helped get her there is suing the 14-year-old for breaking her contract with him. – BBC
“DAMN THOSE CANADIAN JUDGES”
Francis Ford Coppola’s online writers’ workshop is a figure skating free-for-all. The judges can be brutal, but the experience of having your work mauled out there in the ether can also be strangely addictive. – Salon
SLUMP? WHAT SLUMP?
US book publishing sales rose 4 percent last year, beating $24 billion. – Publishers Weekly
BOLD BUT BLOWN OUT
The budget and box office, that is, for this year’s Perth Festival, which reached for some ambitious international projects, but seems headed to a record deficit. – Sydney Morning Herald
GROWING CHORUS —
— of artists protests inclusion of Joerg Haider’s far-right Freedom party in the Austrian government. – CBC (AP)
HARVARD UNDER ATTACK
Native Americans charge the university is trying to get around a law requiring the return of American Indian artifacts. “(Harvard) is very unpopular with natives from coast to coast right now,” said Ramona Peters of the Wampanoag tribe in Gay Head. “It appears they view our ancestors as their property.” – Boston Herald
- RESPONSIBLE RETURN: Some American museums are struggling with complying with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, which mandates the return of native artifacts to Indian tribes. – Boston Herald
- NATIVE AMERICAN FRUSTRATION: “So you go into the museum as the authority figure. And guess who the authorities are on Indians? White people. That’s the hypocrisy. You go in possessing all these qualities and the non-Indian doesn’t recognize you because you don’t have a paper on the wall that says Ph.D. on it.” – Boston Herald