“Christie’s is auctioning artwork (from Lucian Freud to Gary Hume) and ephemera (from metal signs to the collected works of Dickens) that once adorned the British and European offices of a bank that seemed as solid as they get for more than 100 years.”
Tag: 09.24.10
What Do You Want To Be When You Die? A Vinyl Record
A UK company will press your cremated remains into a record. “There are many different packages available. You can choose your own music, or none at all. You could even put the audio from your very best Powerpoint presentation. Think of the possibilities!”
Grand Rapids – Art Everywhere With ArtPrize
“The world’s most lucrative art competition, which opened Wednesday and runs through Oct. 10, offers an explosion of contemporary art: 1,713 artists showing in 192 venues — museums, banks, restaurants, civic buildings, city parks — almost all of them in a 3-square mile patch of downtown Grand Rapids. Art is everywhere. Painting, prints, drawings, photography, sculpture, video, conceptual art.”
Study: Theatre Visitors Boost UK Economy
“Tourists who visited the theatre last year helped boost the UK’s economy by £2.8 billion, Visit Britain has said. The national tourism agency said that 10% of the 30 million overseas tourists who came to the UK in 2009, went to see a stage show.”
BBC World Service To Cut Cultural Programming
As well as dramas, which have been a part of the World Service English schedules for more than 75 years, highlights programmes dedicated to The Proms and the Wimbledon tennis championships will also end.
Unknown Brueghel Canvas Discovered in Madrid
“Spain’s Prado Museum has discovered a previously unknown work by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the 16th-century Flemish master, after cleaning a painting that had been attributed to his less illustrious son.”
Calif. Symphony’s Firing of Conductor Was Stealth Action
Barry Jekowsky, the East Bay orchestra’s founding conductor, had no idea that his employment was even under review, and he found out about his termination through news reports. The firing was voted on by only seven of the board’s 28 members, the rest of whom may not even have been notified of the issue.
Strictly Ballroom, the Musical
“Baz Luhrmann’s 1992 hit movie Strictly Ballroom, which starred Paul Mecurio, is to become a multimillion-dollar stage musical, with a world premiere expected in 2013. Luhrmann said yesterday creative workshops would begin in Sydney in November.”
Infighting, Lawsuits Derail Michael Radford’s Latest Film
“A real-life plot involving lawsuits, egos and a Frenchman in a balaclava has brought chaos to the filming of … Radford’s Spanish-language film project, La Mula.” The director, best known for Il Postino, is seeking an injunction against the film’s Spanish co-producers halting all further work.