“‘It’s going to be very similar to the last offer. We’re just going to make it very, very clear – to clarify exactly what it is going to take,’ [board president Chuck] Maisch said, referring to the terms under which management believes it can employ the musicians and not exceed its budget projections.”
Tag: 03.27.12
Opera Australia Head Wants End To Restrictions On Foreign Singers
“Opera Australia artistic director Lyndon Terracini wants to break 23-year-old restrictions on the number of foreign singers his company can employ, declaring: ‘You can’t have unions running art’.”
Anita Steckel, 82, Pioneering Feminist Erotic Artist
“Her ventures in erotica, she said, were in part intended to establish the right of women to make art from the male figure – just as men had for millenniums created art from the nude female figure.” Her most famous quote: “If the erect penis is not wholesome enough to go into museums, it should not be considered wholesome enough to go into women.”
Some Ballet Fans Really Feel The Dance
“Ballet lovers may ‘truly feel that they are dancing’ when they watch a performance, researchers have found after measuring the brain activity of experienced spectators.” (Okay, that may be overstating the case a bit.)
Ottawa’s National Arts Center Names New Artistic Director
With Artistic Fraud, Keiley has created a number of inventively staged productions that have toured Canada, including Tempting Providence and AfterImage. Her latest collaboration with playwright Robert Chafe, Oil and Water, will play at Toronto’s Factory Theatre in April.
Art Critic Hilton Kramer, 84
“Admired for his intellectual range and feared for his imperious judgments, Mr. Kramer emerged as a critic in the early 1950s and joined The Times in 1965, a time when the tenets of high modernism were being questioned and increasingly attacked. He was a passionate defender of high art against the claims of popular culture and saw himself not simply as a critic offering informed opinion on this or that artist, but also as a warrior upholding the values that made civilized life worthwhile.”
Brazilian Arts Funding Agency Sees Its Budget Go Up Up Up
“Our fundamental guiding principle is to use culture as a tool for education and transformation, to improve people’s lives, and we’re in a position to fulfill that mission, thank God. Over the last decade our budget has been doubling every six years or so. It’s incredible, no?”
Big Boost In Scottish Performing Arts Attendance in 2011 (But…)
“Scotland’s five national performing companies achieved a near 20% increase in audience figures in the financial year 2010/11, according to figures published by the Scottish government. However, while financial and audience indicators are healthy for the year-on-year statistics, audience figures have not recovered to 2008/9 levels and show a decline since the companies entered a direct funding relationship with the government in 2007.”
Times Square As Mediascape
The signs on Times Square grow larger and climb higher than ever as digital technology has transformed both the displays and the way people use this elongated bowtie intersection.
The area once was known for billboard artifice. There are still a few holdouts, such as a fabric banner promoting the Broadway show “Mary Poppins” that rises 26 stories.
Now much of the square is a “mediascape.”
LA’s Musical Brooklyn Affinity
“There is also a more bracing Brooklyn, and one to which L.A. feels both close to and competitive with. We on the West Coast jealously watch many of our promising composers flock there. We also do our best to be Brooklyn on the Pacific. We’ve got the Dodgers and good Brooklyn bagels. And we play Brooklyn music, as wild Up and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra proved over the weekend.”