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Mortier hopes to run both NYC Opera and Bayreuth
Gerard Mortier says his application to run the Bayreuth Festival in Germany will not change his plans to run the New York City Opera starting with the 2009-10 season.
BMI tops in performance revenues
BMI has become the first copyright organization to top $900 million in annual music performance revenues, besting last year's mark by 7.2%.
Major studio film shoots in Los Angeles
Production was ramped up in anticipation of a possible actors strike, with most big-budget movies for next year wrapping by June 30.
Crying Censorship
Salman Rushdie, self-appointed poster boy for the First Amendment, is at it again.
Lawsuit Over Disputed Warhol Will Go Forward
A suit involving the artist John Chamberlain and a work that may or may not be by Andy Warhol will go forward, after a judge denied Mr. Chamberlain's attorney's request for summary judgment.
Chicago art collector dies
Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman, the doyenne of Chicago's collectors of modern art and one of the most cosmopolitan figures on the scene, died Friday at age 94.
The man who saw the future
In the 1970s, visionary architect Paolo Soleri built an extraordinary eco-city in the Arizona desert. Did it work? Steve Rose tracks down a guru who now finds himself back in demand.
Venerable Chicago Jazz Fest at crossroads
The question is whether the pace of change has been brisk enough to keep the Chicago Jazz Festival competitive in a rapidly changing music world.
Graffiti art takes presidential race to the
Artists including Shepard Fairey and Ray Noland head to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, home of MoveOn.org's Manifest Hope Gallery Contest.
Public Art, Eyesore to Eye Candy
Over the past 15 years public sculpture — that is, static, often figurative objects of varying sizes in outdoor public spaces — has become one of contemporary art’s more exciting areas of endeavor and certainly its most dramatically improved one.
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Mortier hopes to run both NYC Opera and Bayreuth
Gerard Mortier says his application to run the Bayreuth Festival in Germany will not change his plans to run the New York City Opera starting with the 2009-10 season.
BMI tops in performance revenues
BMI has become the first copyright organization to top $900 million in annual music performance revenues, besting last year's mark by 7.2%.
Major studio film shoots in Los Angeles
Production was ramped up in anticipation of a possible actors strike, with most big-budget movies for next year wrapping by June 30.
Crying Censorship
Salman Rushdie, self-appointed poster boy for the First Amendment, is at it again.
Lawsuit Over Disputed Warhol Will Go Forward
A suit involving the artist John Chamberlain and a work that may or may not be by Andy Warhol will go forward, after a judge denied Mr. Chamberlain's attorney's request for summary judgment.
Chicago art collector dies
Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman, the doyenne of Chicago's collectors of modern art and one of the most cosmopolitan figures on the scene, died Friday at age 94.
The man who saw the future
In the 1970s, visionary architect Paolo Soleri built an extraordinary eco-city in the Arizona desert. Did it work? Steve Rose tracks down a guru who now finds himself back in demand.
Venerable Chicago Jazz Fest at crossroads
The question is whether the pace of change has been brisk enough to keep the Chicago Jazz Festival competitive in a rapidly changing music world.
Graffiti art takes presidential race to the
Artists including Shepard Fairey and Ray Noland head to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, home of MoveOn.org's Manifest Hope Gallery Contest.
Public Art, Eyesore to Eye Candy
Over the past 15 years public sculpture — that is, static, often figurative objects of varying sizes in outdoor public spaces — has become one of contemporary art’s more exciting areas of endeavor and certainly its most dramatically improved one.