“Unsurprisingly, counting total attendance immediately catapults the great, historic museums of art and culture high up the list: the Louvre in Paris comes first with 8.3m, the British Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Vatican Museums, the Hermitage, the Prado, all do well here.”
Tag: 02.25.08
UK Museums Urged To Give Away “Unused” Art
The British Museums Association is “telling its 1,500 members to give unused items to other museums or public institutions – but they could also be sold in exceptional circumstances. It is a major change of policy for the organisation, which has banned selling objects for 30 years.”
Architecture For The Public Good
Public Architecture, a 5-year-old nonprofit in San Francisco has a different sort of vision: to turn the concept of pro bono work into an industry norm. “Begun in 2005, the program dubbed the 1% Solution aims at getting architectural firms to contribute 1 percent of their billable hours annually to socially responsible initiatives.”
Quill Awards, R.I.P.
The Quills were meant as a kind of people’s choice awards for the books world. “The first Quills event took place in October 2005 to celebrate the best in book publishing while promoting the cause of literacy in the U.S.”
ABC Debuts “Tivo-Killer” Service
“The programs replayed on this video-on-demand service would include advertising sold by the network as well as by local ABC stations, but the total number of commercials in the shows would be far less than the over-the-air broadcast version of the show.”
Deborah Voight Pulls Out Of Brunnhilde
The highly anticipated performances in the Wiener Staatsoper’s new production of “Siegfried,”, directed by Sven-Eric Bechtolf, were to mark Voigt’s first-ever assumption of the role of Brünnhilde in any of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle operas.
The Strange Musical Magic Of Carl Nielsen
“Given the blazing individuality of Nielsen’s voice, it’s puzzling that he has yet to find a firm place in the international repertory… Orchestral players, percussionists excepted, tend to groan a little when Nielsen shows up on their music stands, [and] audiences, for their part, often go away from Nielsen performances pleased but a little dazed, not sure what hit them. Lately, though, Nielsen has been gaining ground.”