1. ARTnews' Top 200 Collectors ARTnews names its annual list of the world's top 200 art collectors. ARTnews 07/01
   
   
2. Classical Recording - Disfunctional Scarcely Describes It Even when recording a classical artist seems to make economic sense, it's not happening anymore at the big recording labels, writes Norman Lebrecht. And of course there's no tolerance for developing new talent or helping to make careers. So what's a talented young violinist to do? London Evening Standard 07/02/03
   
   
3. On Being Canada What makes Canada different from the United States? Quite a few things, actually, and the differences are growing. "Just when you had all but forgotten that carbon-based life exists above the 49th parallel, those sly Canadians have redefined their entire nation as Berkeley North. It's like we woke up and suddenly we're a European country."
   Washington Post 07/01/03
   
   
4. Anatomy Of A Public Art Project Planners of a project at San Francisco Airport hired Brooklyn artist Vito Acconci to make a piece of public art for the project. But five of his ideas were rejected before one stuck. And drivers coming out of the terminal might not even be aware that they're looking at public art... San Francisco Chronicle 07/01/03
   
   
5. Understanding Beethoven Nine Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is one of the most famous pieces of music in history. But "what can be said about the Ninth with reasonable certainty? One is that its position in the world is probably about what Beethoven wanted it to be. Figuratively speaking, everybody knows the Ninth. But has anybody really understood it? The harder you look, the odder it gets. In a singular way, the Ninth enfolds the apparently contradictory qualities of the epic and the slippery." Slate 06/30/03