TV journalists are complaining that access to tapes of performances nominated for daytime Emmys has been “shut off, and the National Television Academy won’t even let them know which specific episodes are being judged. The head of the committee that instituted the ban conceded it was done because some academy members were annoyed at previous years’ stories written about the awards, but characterized the decision as innocuous.”
Tag: 03.28.05
Moscow Art Exhibiters Fined For Blasphemy
“A Moscow court has found the organisers of an art exhibition guilty of inciting religious hatred and fined them 100,000 roubles (£2,000; $3,600) each. The January 2003 exhibition called “Caution! Religion” was staged by the Sakharov Museum, named after the Soviet-era dissident Andrei Sakharov.”
Storing Art Out In Public
The Brooklyn Museum’s Luce Center for American Art is “among a growing number of visible storage centers in the world. Art experts say visible storage is a good option for museums to show the public the breadth of a specific collection, but they caution that it must be used to complement, not to replace, traditional exhibits. At the Brooklyn Museum, about 800 objects are housed in the Luce Center, including all American paintings not formerly on display. There are thousands more decorative objects, such as spoons, teapots and toasters, still in storage.”
Fire Consumes Moscow Art Market
A fire Saturday swept through a sprawling Moscow art market noted for a wide array of Russian handicrafts and Soviet-era trinkets and replicas, leaving at least one woman dead and another injured.
Ireland Talks About Taxing Artists
For more than three decades, Ireland has encouraged artists by providing “tax-free status on income from original works considered to be of creative, artistic or cultural merit. To qualify, a sample or copy of work must be submitted to the Revenue Commissioners. The scheme costs an estimated €35 million a year in lost taxation revenue.” Now a list of artists benefiting from the plan has been published under the Freedom of Information Act, and it includes “the names of most authors, artists and musicians who came to prominence in the late 1990s.” As least one political party says high-earning artists should start paying tax.
The Orchestra, The Concertmaster, And His Tell-All Blog (Oh My…)
When the Seattle Symphony fired longtime concertmaster Ilka Talvi last summer, he took the orchestra to arbitration. But this is the internet age, a time when the agrieved… write a blog. In the week since Talvi started Schmaltzuberalles he’s dished deep and unflatteringly about his former orchestra and Gerard Schwarz, its music director. Sure names have been changed in the blog, but it’s not difficult to figure out who’s who. Word of the blog has spread like wildfire through the orchestra world, and evidently has even caught the attention of Seattle Symphony management. Talvi writes that a few days after the blog began, the orchestra called to fire his violinist wife from her contracted SSO work. The next day Talvi writes of getting a visit from Seattle police, acting on a complaint about the blog…