“Attendance has nearly tripled at Jacksonville’s Museum of Contemporary Art since the City Council president, Clay Yarborough, last week denounced as pornographic a photograph showing a nude pregnant woman reclining on a love seat.”
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Philadelphia Theatre Company Edges Away From The Brink
“With the help of former Kennedy Center president Michael M. Kaiser, the financially beleaguered Philadelphia Theatre Company has bought itself some time, buoying hopes for its survival.”
Even Pippi Longstocking Gets Caught Up In Racial Controversy
“In Sweden, Pippi is something more: a national treasure and embodiment of the country’s egalitarian spirit. So when the Swedish national broadcaster announced this fall that it would edit two scenes that it considered offensive in a 1969 television series about Pippi – including one in which she says her father is ‘king of the Negroes,’ using a Swedish word now viewed as a racial slur – it hit a nerve.”
How Calatrava’s Ground Zero Train Station Grew Into A $4 Billion Juggernaut
“Its colossal avian presence may yet guarantee the hub a place in the pantheon of civic design in New York. But it cannot escape another, more ignominious distinction as one of the most expensive and most delayed train stations ever built.”
Turin’s Opera House Persuades Gianandrea Noseda Not To Quit As Music Director
“The agreement will keep Mr. Noseda – who has been enjoying a growing international reputation and who was just named the conductor of the year by the classical music publication Musical America – with a company he has been credited with elevating to a new level. And it offers some welcome news in what has been a rough year for opera in its birthplace, Italy.”