Boston is already seeing the results of its recently enacted tax breaks for filmmakers, and a healthy dose of newly installed upscale clubs, hotels, and restaurants are drawing in the glitterati as well. “Boston has built it – a powerful celebrity electromagnet, that is – and they have come. “It’s not a complex formula, but it can raise the heat index for a city like Boston, which has been traditionally regarded as more a net celebrity exporter (think Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Denis Leary, Jay Leno) than an importer or destination point.”
Tag: 10.10.07
Artists Gotta Eat, Too
When you hear of an artist or musician receiving a $50,000 grant, you probably imagine him using the money to create more art or music, or to launch some exciting new venture previously beyond the realm of affordability. The truth is more pedestrian – most artists use at least part of the money from grants to pay for basic essentials of life – doctors’ appointments, a new pair of glasses, even house payments.
Music On The Big Screen
“There seems to be enough projects in theaters and in development built on the intersection between celluloid and what used to be called vinyl to fill a jukebox.” So what’s making the world of rock and roll so attractive to Hollywood all of a sudden? It’s all about new technology…
Soviet Modernism Finds A Powerful Ally
Russian billionaire politician Sergey Gordeev, 34, is making a name for himself in the art world with his acquisition and preservation of Soviet-era architecture. “With his fingers in so many pies, it can seem as though Mr. Gordeev’s hands hold the fate of one of the greatest legacies of 20th-century Modernism. And while the preservationists who once feared him now fervently praise him, they privately admit to some disquiet.”
Getting To Work In Newark
As it prepares to kick off its new season, the New Jersey Symphony “faces fiscal challenges many administrators would think a nightmare.” But the orchestra’s 40-year-old CEO is enthusiastic about the work that needs to be done to stabilize his organization, which includes dealing with the fallout from the NJSO’s overpayment for a collection of rare Italian instruments in 2003.
Cleveland Tweaks Audition Process
“The Cleveland Orchestra’s controversial audition process, which excluded the use of first-round screens intended to protect candidates from bias, is a thing of the past.” Members of the orchestra have agreed to make their auditions more like those of other American orchestras, placing screens in front of auditioning candidates. No change will be made to a provision under which final hiring authority is given solely to the music director.
Broadway On Brink Of Stagehands Strike
Producers made their “final offer” Tuesday night. “If the lockout is imposed it would be the second work stoppage on Broadway in five years; the musicians’ strike in 2003, which lasted for four days, was the first time in nearly 30 years that Broadway was shut down by a labor dispute. The league and the union have been in negotiations since before the contract expired at the end of July.”