Billie Tisch (widow of Laurence Tisch of Loews Corp. and CBS) has sued South Florida art dealer Kenneth Hendel for the return of a 1928 portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter that she last saw in 2009 but didn’t know had been taken until a few weeks ago. Hendel insists he purchased the painting lawfully and has legal title to it.
Jackie Carter Was The Change She Wanted To See In The (Publishing) World
“In 1975 she quit teaching and decided to devote her career to editing and publishing books that might captivate minority children and also reflect their lives.”
Can ‘The Mikado’ Be Saved From Its Yellowface History?
“The setting was no longer England (or Japan). It was now going to be in Milan during the Renaissance. … And Brooks and Barbara Heroux (the theatre’s artistic director emeritus) have combed through the script, changing character names, modifying any reference to Japan, and removing anything that could be construed as an ethnic slur. For example, the character of the Mikado is now Il Ducato, emperor of Milan, and the line, ‘We are gentlemen of Japan’ has become, ‘We are gentlemen of Milan.'”
The World Is Being Organized Into Giant Mega-Cities
“Today the world’s top 20 richest cities have forged a super-circuit driven by capital, talent, and services: they are home to more than 75% of the largest companies, which in turn invest in expanding across those cities and adding more to expand the intercity network. Indeed, global cities have forged a league of their own, in many ways as denationalized as Formula One racing teams, drawing talent from around the world and amassing capital to spend on themselves while they compete on the same circuit.”
Why Shakespeare’s A Star And Cervantes Is… Not So Much
“The English have managed to sell Shakespeare as one of the pillars of their language, because theirs is a more pragmatic country than ours. Spain is not a place that knows how to acknowledge its culture.”
Boycott Of South Korea’s Largest Film Festival Threatened
“Nine South Korean film organizations said this week that they would boycott the Busan International Film Festival, one of the top events in Asia, if organizers did not address their concerns about government interference in the festival.”
Bret Easton Ellis Sees ‘American Psycho’ On Broadway
“My first impression is that it’s strange that something I wrote 30 years ago is a musical on Broadway. To witness its tortured history, from this thing that was a quasi-victim of censorship to a mainstream Broadway musical, makes me feel very, very old.”
UK’s Oldest Contemporary Dance Company Launches Choreography Fellowships
“Over the next three years, the Leverhulme Choreography Fellowship will support three professional dancers in making the transition from dancing to full-time choreography. The fellows will each spend a year with Rambert as part of the programme, which will run alongside the company’s existing music fellowship and choreographic development programme.”
Los Angeles Library Unveils Its New Library Card, Designed By Shepard Fairey
“Fairey’s design, which he created with artist Cleon Peterson, depicts the historic Central Library in downtown in a white, green and black motif that echoes Fairey’s signature poster style.”
Remembering A Generation Of Artists Wiped Out By AIDS
“There was a time when you could walk around London or New York and see these gaunt faces, marked with sarcomas, and everyone you hung out with was dying. The official culture was in denial. Sometimes it was easier to be.”
Victoria Wood, 62, Sharp, Smart, Beloved British Comedian
“No one in American culture enjoys the status that comedian Victoria Wood had in Britain. To find an equivalent, you have to combine Richard Pryor, Allan Sherman, and Joan Rivers – at least when it comes to the role she played in British society.”
Met Opera’s Credit Rating Stabilizes
“The Metropolitan Opera, which has been cutting costs in recent years to address its serious fiscal challenges, got a measure of good news on Wednesday when Standard & Poor’s affirmed the company’s ‘A’ credit rating and revised its outlook to stable from negative.”
Johan Kobborg Returns To Romania’s National Ballet After Government Deal
Following a firestorm at the Bucharest National Opera that culminated in the near-collapse of the ballet season and the intervention of the prime minister, the culture minister has reinstated Kobborg as the ballet’s artistic director and brought back, for a three-month interim period, the general manager whose departure (due to corruption charges) precipitated the entire mess.
(in Romanian; Google Translate version here)
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Data: Why Donors Stop Giving To Arts Organizations
“Not being thanked for a previous gift, not being asked to donate again, and lack of communication about the impact of one’s donation all represent massive communication fails. Advances in relationship management technologies are supposed to make communication fails increasingly rare – but, the data suggest that many of us remain our own worst enemies when it comes to retaining donors.”
Gauguin’s ‘Readymade’ Brooch Rediscovered
“An extraordinary brooch made by Paul Gauguin for his wife Mette has gone on display at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. … This bizarre creation [is] crafted from a piece of stovepipe scrap metal, a glass watch-dial case and a lock of hair. Arguably, this piece of jewellery is among the earliest ‘readymades” in art history.