“A few years ago,” she says, “the Los Angeles Times ran a cartoon featuring a man in overalls at a dreary desk with a long-dead plant. The caption read: ‘Housed deep within the bowels of the Motion Picture Assn. of America is a man named Wallace McEntyre, and he, and he alone, understands what may or may not be appropriate for children under 13.'”
Tag: 04.08.10
Art Gallery Of Ontario’s Big Bonuses Stand Alone
Last year, AGO “paid about $665,000 to CEO Matthew Teitelbaum as a bonus for the completion of [its $300 million Transformation AGO] project, and another $250,000 to six other members of its senior management team.” Concurrently, other major Toronto arts projects appear to have gone ahead with no similar deals.
Alan Bennett’s Habit Of Art To Be Broadcast To Cinemas
“The play, Bennett’s first since the hugely successful History Boys in 2004, opened at the National’s Lyttelton Theatre on November 5. It is directed by National chief Nicholas Hytner and stars Richard Griffiths as [W.H.] Auden alongside Alex Jennings as [Benjamin] Britten.”
A Festival Celebrates American Song — Of A Certain Kind
“But just what does the [Washington’s Vocal Arts Society, which organized the festival,] mean by ‘American vocal music’? Duke Ellington’s ‘Sophisticated Ladies’ makes the cut. Patti LuPone, at Strathmore, doesn’t. The classical music world seems unsure exactly what the American tradition is that it wants to preserve.”
Corcoran Gallery Climate Control Malfunction Ends A Show
“Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces From the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales” closed yesterday, more than two weeks early. “According to museum officials, the three galleries housing the half-billion-dollar collection did not open Wednesday after the staff decided that air-handling issues for the space needed to be corrected immediately.”
Dallas Opera Chooses New General Director
“Currently CEO of Sheet Music Plus, the world’s largest internet-based sheet-music company, Keith Cerny previously spent three years as executive director and CFO of the San Francisco Opera. Before that, he held executive positions in communications and technology operations with Accenture and McKinsey & Company.”
Susan Rothenberg And Georgia O’Keeffe: Parallel Lives
“When the painter Susan Rothenberg moved to New Mexico from New York City in 1990 at the age of 45, she didn’t give a lot of thought to the parallels between herself and Georgia O’Keeffe, another woman who gained fame in New York and began spending a lot of time here at around the same age.” But with a retrospective of Rothenberg’s work now showing in the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, “the comparison has become hard to avoid.”
The Museum Where Research Itself Is On Display
The new Darwin Center (“the Cocoon”) at London’s Natural History Museum includes the offices and labs for more than 200 researchers along with plenty of exhibition space. Indeed, the “research facilities and scientists are part of the exhibition; they are glimpsed through windows, framed by explanations. They even become the subject of the show. The Cocoon’s displays are not really about botany and bugs; they are about the collection and study of botany and bugs.”