An intervention by St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman “has precipitated a new offer from management, which still cuts musicians pay, but not by as much as previous proposals. Late Friday afternoon the musicians said they don’t think the offer is legal.”
Tag: 03.22.13
Chaotic Art, Or Artful Chaos, Confounds An Old French Village
“Businessman-turned-artist Thierry Ehrmann has turned his 17th-century home in France into the ‘Abode of Chaos’ – a sprawling art installation dedicated to death and mayhem. Now some neighbors are trying to restore order.”
Leonard Slatkin: How The Detroit Symphony Is Making A Comeback
“Now we are seeing noticeably fuller houses at our presentations, and despite the drop in prices, an increase in average price paid for a ticket, as well as a more diverse audience demographic. There is vitality to our constituency that did not exist before.”
Italian Rare Book Theft Scandal Spreads From Naples To Florence
“Following the arrest of Marino Massimo de Caro, the former director of Naples’s Girolamini library over the theft of 1,000 books from the historic institution,” he and several accomplices “confessed to stealing more books from the Biblioteca dell’Osservatorio Ximeniano and the Biblioteca Scolopica San Giovannino, both in Florence.”
Here’s A Shakespeare Update That Could Really Work
Tom Sutcliffe argues that an Islamic setting of Measure for Measure – say, in a small Gulf state – “would make it less of a problem play than it usually is.”
Why “Veronica Mars” Kickstarter Campaign Might Be Bad New For Pop Culture
“The most frustrating part of the whole thing is that the Veronica Mars Kickstarter may end up unintentionally destroying projects with genuine potential.”
Mexico Demands Sotheby’s Halt Sale Of Artifacts
“The National Institute of Anthropology and History said Wednesday that Mexico has sent a diplomatic note to the French government seeking assistance in heading off the scheduled auction, in Paris.”
The Life Of An Artist’s Assistant Is Far From Glamorous
“What’s most striking about the artist-assistant relationship is how it is airbrushed from public consciousness. Behind every great artist might well be a highly skilled team of assistants, but that truth is suppressed for fear of shattering our illusions: the lone-genius myth helps sales, and is partly what gives an artwork its mystique.”
Taking Back The Silver Screen
“The truth is that British actors are quietly taking the best roles away from Americans with all the effort of picking raisins from a scone.”
Chinua Achebe Examined The Construction Of Colonialism, But Also Masculinity
“What sticks with you about the novel is its sensitive investigation, often through folk tales, of how culture functions and what it means.”