Heirs of a French collector come forward to lay claim to Picasso work owned by New York’s Museum of Modern Art. – New York Times
Tag: 04.27.00
A LITTLE DISTANCE PLEASE
Okay, so Sotheby’s chairman has resigned in the midst of the auction house investigations. But if his people still control the board of directors, how will the company make a clean break from possible misdeeds of the past? – Financial Times
TARNISHED TALE: Sotheby’s chairman Alfred Taubman rebuilt Sotheby’s and helped make it successful – it was all a kind of fairy tale. But sometimes fairy tales write their own dark endings… – New York Times
HANDICAPPING THE GUGGENHEIM
What are the chances the Guggenheim’s proposed Gehry building for lower Manhattan will ever get built? Not entirely solid. On the other hand, “these days the Guggenheim name is as much a prestige brand as BMW, Bollinger or Armani and not one that is lightly dismissed especially in its home town. [Guggenheim director Thomas] Krens says ‘more than 50’ cities and towns around the world have invited the Guggenheim to set up shop. – Sydney Morning Herald
BOLD STROKE: No museum has been so defined by its architecture as the Guggenheim. That helps explain the grand scale of what the proposed lower Manhattan Guggenheim would be. – New York Magazine
MUTUAL RETURN
This weekend Germany and Russia meet to exchange some of the art they stole from one another in World War II. – New York Times
STILL TOO HOT TO HANDLE
After reducing the time some of Robert Mapplethorpe’s more explicit photographs are shown in its documentary about the 1990 obscenity trial over the work, Showtime’s “Dirty Pictures” gets an “R” rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. As originally edited, the film would have been tagged with an NC-17 which would mean the network couldn’t have shown it in prime time. – Newsweek (Variety) 04/27/00
REINVENTING THE FUTURE
The thing about technical advances is not just that they make it easier to do what you’re already doing – improvements in your tools change the way you think about your art, the way you conceive of it, the way it looks. – Chicago Tribune 04/27/00
TV IN TEN YEARS?
No question television is changing. What’ll it look like in ten years? Six Australian experts make their predictions. – The Age (Melbourne) 04/27/00
UNDUE INFLUENCE
Consumer groups are stepping up to object to Time Warner’s merger with AOL. Critics are afraid of a “content bottleneck” if the deal goes through. – Variety 04/27/00