“Close to one-half of Canada’s artists live in just three cities — Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal. And while the number of artists across Canada has increased by almost 30 per cent in the last decade, they’re earning on average 26 per cent less than other workers in the labour force, a study released yesterday shows.”
Tag: 10.21.04
Garcia Marquez Book Hits The Streets
Nobel Prize author Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s first book in a decade went on sale in Latin America Wednesday (released early because pirated copies were being sold on the streets) and the interest has been intense. “Editors said demand for the book has been so strong that they were already in the process of publishing a second edition of 50,000 to add to the initial Mexican release of 100,000 in softcover and 30,000 in hardcover.”
Crookall To Run Indianapolis Symphony
Simon Crookall has been named executive director of the Indianapolis Orchestra. “A 44-year-old Englishman who has worked in Scotland for nearly half his life, Crookall has been with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for nine years, eight as chief executive.”
BBC Digital Radio Surges
The BBC’s digital radio stations are doing well. Very well, in fact, and commercial stations are complaining of “unfair competition”…
Community To Barnes: We Won’t Play Ball
One of the sites the Barnes Foundation is considering moving to in Phiadelphia is currently accupied by community baseball fields. Community groups who use the fields have reacted with dismay to the Barnespotential move. “The ball fields – two baseball diamonds and a small children’s playground along the northern part of the Parkway – are home to countless children’s baseball, softball and soccer games and serve hundreds of children from several city neighborhoods.”
Knight: Is Getty On The Wrong Track?
What does Deborah Gribbon’s resignation as director mean for the Getty Museum? Christopher Knight canvasses the museum world and finds some criticism. “For longtime museum watchers, this avalanche of public dismay from within the upper echelon of American art museum administration amounts to a stunning rebuke.”
The Two-Sided Carr
A rare double-sided painting by Emily Carr is coming up for auction in Canada. One of the images is a self-portrait that Carr presumably didn’t like…
Far Leaving Bristol Old Vic
“David Farr is leaving the Bristol Old Vic to take over the Lyric Hammersmith in London. He joins the theatre next June, replacing current artistic director Neil Bartlett, who steps down at the end of this month.”
Serota: UK Government Breaking Museum Promises
Earlier this summer the British government promised extra funding help to the country’s ailing museums. But “since the summer, a mysterious silence has fallen, and Tate director Nicholas Serota now condemns what he believes is a broken promise. ‘My fear is that far from it being the museums’ turn, the museums will go to their traditional place – at the back of the queue’.” What will get the funding? Sports.
An El Greco Out Of The Envelope
An old man in Spain pulls out a dirty old envelope and reveals… an El Greco. “The elderly man said The Baptism of Christ had been in his family for over a century: he had no idea where it came from before that, and was astonished at its value – estimated at up to £600,000, although it could go for more at auction in December.”