“The list of the top 200 collectors includes developer Aby Rosen, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and brokerage executive Charles Schwab. Schwab was knocked out of the top 10. Although art-loving billionaires are sprouting up around the world, the U.S. hasn’t lost its dominance. Six of the top 10 collectors live primarily in the U.S. That’s true of 107 of the top 200 collectors.”
Tag: 06.26.08
Latest Casualty – Miami Herald Ditches Classical Music Critic
“On Monday, Miami Herald Classical Music Critic Lawrence Johnson received an “involuntary buyout” from his newspaper. Just to be clear, the word “buyout” when preceded by ‘involuntary’ means laid off, in this case with eight weeks severance pay. Such is Johnson’s paper parachute.”
The Wonders Of IMDb
“The site boasts more than one million titles and at least 2.6 million names. Most every movie and TV show is listed with the complete cast and crew. It’s a reservoir of information including box office numbers, reviews, trivia, trailers, quotes, soundtrack listings, mistakes, and much more.”
UK’s Conservative Party Rebrands As “Party Of The Arts”
“Conservative shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has for the first time outlined what his party’s artistic policies will be if it wins the next general election, in a speech claiming the Tories are now the ‘natural party of the arts’.”
Why Are We Fascinated By Celeb Gossip? Academics Posit…
European and American academics are meeting here this week to examine society’s fascination with “train wreck” female celebrities. Why do the public and media seem to get such a kick out of Britney’s latest meltdown, Lindsay’s booze and drug arrests, and Amy Winehouse’s rehab struggles?
How YouTube Is Changing Classical Music
“I discovered you can waste an awful lot of time on YouTube and become an expert in useless information. In the process, however, you are participating in a 21st century form of musical assimilation, a creative pursuit that is rooted both in Freud’s method of free association and in the random sampling that John Cage, Witold Lutoslawski and Steve Reich foretold as the basis for a new musical civilisation.”
Buildings That Move And Reconfigure – For Real?
“Will the Dynamic Tower ever happen? Is David Fisher’s animated design all spin and no substance? With enough money, there’s no reason why it can’t work. Whether it will make residents and people looking up at it dizzy is another matter, as is the question of who will look after this mechanical wonder when it falls from fashion and no one can be bothered to keep it turning.”
Government Report On Changes At CBC Radio: What, We Help?
“The standing committee on Canadian heritage heard, over the past month, from representatives of all interested parties: from the CBC managers who have decided to eliminate classical music from the most popular listening periods in the day and evening; they heard from classical singers and composers who object to that decision; and they heard from commercial music producers who are thrilled by it. The committee has just released its report, and a rather pusillanimous document it is.”
Your High School Senior – More Ambitious, Diverse
“Although many faculty members like to complain about the declining capabilities of incoming students, the data show that students’ have increasingly taken advanced courses in high school. The demographic data provide little in the way of surprises; they show the high school-age population growing increasingly diverse over time, with white students making up 86 percent of the national high school senior class in 1972 and declining to 62 percent by 2004.”
Some Actors Prepared To Work Without Contract
Still, “while the union has yet to seek a strike authorization vote from its members, the industry is already in a “de facto” strike, with the studios winding down all but a few film productions by Monday. Hollywood is still recovering from a 14-week writers strike that ended in February.”