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Arts, Briefly: Hit Shows in Britain Suffer Body Blow

Posted: May 28th, 2008, 4:22am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

Out-of-context theater reviews in advertisements that make a theatrical turkey sound like the second coming of “Hamlet” are now subject to criminal prosecution in Britain, Variety has reported. Enacted in response to European Union regulations, a consumer protection law that took effect on Monday to combat misleading or aggressive marketing practices empowers prosecutors to defend the hoodwinked. The prosecutors must prove that theatergoers were misled. Guilty theater operators could be fined as much as $9,900 and sent to prison for two years.
Arts, Briefly: Footnotes

Posted: May 28th, 2008, 4:21am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

Featuring 170 works, a $7.1 million museum dedicated to the Belgian Surrealist René Magritte is to open in Brussels on June 9, 2009, the director of Belgium’s fine arts museums, Michel Draguet, announced on Tuesday, Agence France-Presse reported. ... Al Jaffee, above, the veteran Mad magazine cartoonist, received the Reuben Award as cartoonist of the year at the National Cartoonists Society’s annual ceremony in New Orleans, according to the group’s Web site (reuben.org). Mr. Jaffee, 87, who lives in Manhattan, created the Mad Fold-In in 1964 and still draws it. He is also known for Mad’s “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions.” Also nominated for the award, often called the profession’s top honor, were Dave Coverly, who draws “Speed Bump,” and Dan Piraro, who draws “Bizarro.” ... The Brooklyn Philharmonic, led by a guest conductor, George Garrett Keast, and featuring the violinist Tim Fain, will present a free concert in Central Park at 7:30 p.m. on June 24 as part of the 103rd season of the Naumburg Orchestral Concert Series. The performance, in the Naumburg Bandshell, will include works by Mozart, Stravinsky and Beethoven. ... Carl Reiner will be saluted by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene at a gala benefit concert on June 17 at Town Hall, where Brian Williams, a self-described Yiddish enthusiast, will serve as host, and featured guests will include Mary Tyler Moore, Theodore Bikel, Fyvush Finkel, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara and Renée Taylor. ... Running from mid-January to mid-April, an exhibition devoted to the life of the Danish-American entertainer Victor Borge will be presented at Scandinavian House to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Arts, Briefly: Nude Photos Ignite Australian Debate

Posted: May 28th, 2008, 4:20am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

Cate Blanchett joined forces on Tuesday with prominent people in the arts to protest plans by the police to initiate an obscenity prosecution over images by Bill Henson, an eminent photographer, that feature nude 12- and 13-year-olds, Agence France-Presse reported. An open letter signed by Ms. Blanchett, who, with her husband, the playwright Andrew Upton, is a joint artistic director of the Sydney Theater Company, declared that the potential prosecution “does untold damage to our cultural reputation.” The signers included Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, and the writer Larissa Behrendt. Last week, responding to a complaint from a member of the public, the police raided and closed the Henson exhibition at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Sydney and seized 20 works. They said they were likely to bring charges in connection with the images, described by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as “absolutely revolting.” All the signers of the protest letter took part last month in Canberra in Mr. Rudd’s national summit on future directions. The letter said that Mr. Henson’s “work itself is not pornographic, even though it includes depictions of naked human beings. It is more justly seen in a tradition of the nude in art that stretches back to the ancient Greeks, and which includes painters such as Caravaggio and Michelangelo.”.
Arts, Briefly: Germany Remembers Persecuted Gays

Posted: May 28th, 2008, 4:20am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

A monument featuring two men kissing was unveiled by Germany in Berlin on Tuesday in memory of thousands of homosexuals who were persecuted, tortured and killed by the Nazis, Agence France-Presse reported. Designed by the Danish-born Michael Elmgreen and the Norwegian-born Ingar Draset, both based in Berlin, the memorial, situated in the Tiergarten park, near the Brandenburg Gate and the Holocaust memorial, consists of a gray concrete slab about 13 feet high. Inside, at eye level, is a gap filled by a television screen that shows the kissing men, above. Bernd Neumann, Germany’s minister of culture, evoked the present when he said the monument was “also first and foremost an expression of our conviction that in our country there is no place for the discrimination of homosexuals, of people who think and live differently.” On hand for the unveiling was Berlin’s openly gay mayor, Klaus Wowereit, but no survivors. The last known survivor, Pierre Seel, died in November 2005. Homosexuality was illegal in Germany until 1969 and not formally decriminalized until 1994.
Arts, Briefly: Goats Eat Free at the Getty

Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:50am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

The Getty Center in Los Angeles has contracted about 60 goats, including the one shown above, to eat the brush on its 110 acres. If left unmanaged, the brush could serve as fuel for wildfires.
Arts, Briefly: All That Jazz in Montreal

Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:48am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

The 29th Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, which is being dedicated to Oscar Peterson, will run from June 26 to July 6 and present more than 3,000 musicians.
Arts, Briefly: Amy Winehouse Arrested Again

Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:48am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

The Grammy Award-winning soul singer Amy Winehouse was arrested on Wednesday in London on suspicion of drug offenses and held after she turned herself in at a police station.
Arts, Briefly: R. Kelly Trial to Start

Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:47am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

After six years of repeated delays, the R&B star R. Kelly is to stand trial on child pornography charges; jury selection will begin on Friday in Chicago, The Associated Press reported.
Arts, Briefly: Extended Visits for Britney Spears

Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:47am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

Britney Spears was awarded extended visits with her sons after a child custody hearing in Los Angeles Superior County Court on Tuesday, The Associated Press reported.
Arts, Briefly: Yale Students' New Art

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 4:50am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

Aliza Shvarts, the Yale University student whose senior art project created a frenzy last month has submitted a different work to the senior thesis exhibition, The Yale Daily News reported. Ms. Shvarts’s original work supposedly included documentation of repeated artificial inseminations and induced miscarriages. The university has said that it found no evidence to back up Ms. Shvarts’s story. It also would not allow her to show that work in a campus art exhibition unless she admitted that it was a fiction, which she did not do.
Arts, Briefly: Footnote

Posted: May 1st, 2008, 3:56am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

The 12-day Cannes Film Festival will open on May 14 with “Blindness.” Directed by the Brazilian Fernando Meirelles (“City of God,” “The Constant Gardener”), the film stars Julianne Moore as the only sighted person in a town where everyone else is mysteriously struck blind.
Arts, Briefly: Gambling Back at WOR

Posted: May 1st, 2008, 3:54am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

John R. Gambling, who left WOR radio in New York in 2000, will return to the station with a morning show beginning at 5:30 on Monday, The Associated Press reported. His grandfather John B. Gambling began morning broadcasts on WOR shortly after the station went on the air in 1922, and his father, John A. Gambling, hosted the morning program until 1985, when John R. succeeded him before moving to WABC. WOR said the current morning hosts, Joe Bartlett and Donna Hanover, would remain at the station. Mr. Bartlett, as news director, will deliver the news on weekday mornings; and Ms. Hanover will serve as a film critic and substitute host. ... Randi Rhodes is rejoining the liberal radio network Air America. “Randi Rhodes Show” will be broadcast weekdays, beginning on Monday, from 3 to 6 p.m. on XM 167. Ms. Rhodes ended her employment with Air America last month after she was suspended when a video of her making disparaging remarks about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton surfaced on YouTube. In other radio news the Internet blogger and television personality Perez Hilton will deliver celebrity gossip when he joins “Miss Jones in the Morning” next week on the hip-hop radio station Hot 97 (WQHT-FM in New York), AllHipHop.com reported. The one-minute segments will be heard at 8.
Arts, Briefly: A New Turn in Picasso Dispute

Posted: April 17th, 2008, 2:55am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Foundation have received permission to proceed with a lawsuit intended to establish their ownership of two Picasso paintings, Bloomberg News reported. The ruling, by Judge Jed S. Rakoff of United States District Court in Manhattan, rejected a motion by Julius Schoeps, a professor in Germany, to dismiss the museums’ petition for a ruling that he had no valid claim to the paintings. He said the paintings, “Boy Leading a Horse,” above, and “Le Moulin de la Galette,” were sold under duress by onr of his Jewish relatives in Germany as the Nazis rose to power. The court decision leaves open the possibility of a trial on the merits of the competing ownership claims.
Arts, Briefly: French Singer Stirs Storm

Posted: April 17th, 2008, 2:54am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

A French singer who plans to sing in English at the Eurovision Song Contest next month in Belgrade, Serbia, has outraged many of his countrymen, Agence France-Presse reported. The singer, Sebastien Tellier, 33, intends to perform “Divine” with almost exclusively English lyrics, becoming the first French competitor to do so since the contest began in 1956. “Many of our citizens will not understand why France has chosen not to uphold its language before millions of television viewers around the world,” said François-Michel Gonnot, a French legislator. Christine Albanel, the culture minister, said France should be “solidly behind” Mr. Tellier, above, but added that “it is a shame that there is no French song” to represent that nation. Mr. Tellier’s producer, Stéphane Elfassi, said, “Out of the 40 countries participating at least 25 will present a song in English.”.
Arts, Briefly: Embezzlement at Guggenheim Bilbao

Posted: April 17th, 2008, 2:53am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, charged its financial director with embezzling more than $775,000, Agence France-Presse reported. The Guggenheim said that it filed the case against the director, Roberto Cearsolo Barrenetxea, “for financial and accounting irregularities.” In a statement the museum said he had admitted diverting money to his own account since 1998. He was fired on Tuesday.
Arts, Briefly: American Academy Picks Caro and Trillin

Posted: April 17th, 2008, 2:53am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

The writers Robert A. Caro and Calvin Trillin are among eight newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The other writers who will be inducted on May 21 are Kwame Anthony Appiah, Stephen Greenblatt, Paul Muldoon and Joy Williams. They will be joined by the artists John Baldessari and Ursula von Rydingsvard when Ezra Laderman, the president, presents more than 50 awards in architecture, art, literature and music at the academy, based in Manhattan. Richard Meier is to receive the organization’s gold medal for architecture and Edmund S. Morgan its gold medal for history. Judith Jamison, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, will receive the award for distinguished service to the arts.
Arts, Briefly: Ninety-Six and Counting

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 4:54am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

How does Marta Eggerth, above, plan to celebrate her 96th birthday? By singing at the Café Sabarsky at the Neue Galerie. The cabaret performance on April 17 will be her second there this month. The other performance will take place on Thursday. Ms. Eggerth, whose career has embraced operetta, opera, lieder and European and American film, gave sold-out performances in October at Café Sabarsky, where she has been appearing since 2005. She will be accompanied by the pianist David Maiullo.
Arts, Briefly: Footnotes

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 4:53am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

The world premiere engagement of “Betrayed” has been extended for a second time, through June 28 at the Culture Project in SoHo. This well-received play by George Packer, top, deals with the suffering of Iraqis who risked everything to help the American government and military in Iraq and often received insufficient protection in return. ... The reunited boy band New Kids on the Block will play its first engagement in 14 years on May 17 at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, N.J., during the annual Zootopia concert of the New York radio station Z100 (WHTZ, 100.3 FM), Reuters reported. Also featured will be Miley Cyrus, Jordin Sparks, the Jonas Brothers, OneRepublic, Simple Plan, Sara Bareilles, Gavin DeGraw and Ferras. ... Emmylou Harris, above, who will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on April 27, will release her new album, “All I Intended to Be,” on the Nonesuch label on June 10. It’s her first recording of new material in nearly five years. ... A new Neil Diamond album, “Home Before Dark” (Columbia), will be released on May 6, Reuters reported. Mr. Diamond begins a monthlong European tour in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on May 24 and is expected to tour North America in the summer.
Arts, Briefly: A.B.T. Plans Tudor Tribute

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 4:52am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

American Ballet Theater will salute the centennial of the birth of the choreographer Antony Tudor (1908-1987) in its fall season at City Center, from Oct. 21 through Nov. 2. His works will be presented at each performance, and the Oct. 31 program — the Tudor Centennial Tribute, with special guest appearances and films of Tudor at work — will be devoted entirely to his dances. The evening will include “Continuo” (1971), “Jardin aux Lilas” (1936) and pas de deux from “Romeo and Juliet” (1943) and “The Leaves are Fading” (1975), as well as “Judgment of Paris” (1938) and “Pillar of Fire” (1942).
Arts, Briefly: Venezuelan Channel Banishes Simpsons

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 4:52am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

Viewer complaints prompted a Venezuelan television channel to banish the satirical animated sitcom “The Simpsons” and replace it with “Baywatch Hawaii,” The Associated Press reported. Elba Guillen, a spokeswomen for the station, Televen, said on Monday that the decision to change offerings in its 11 a.m. time slot followed viewer protests to the National Telecommunications Commission. Referring to “The Simpsons,” she said, “They consider it to be a series that isn’t appropriate for that time because it isn’t appropriate for children.” The commission did not specify what was deemed offensive but said that broadcasting the series at 11 a.m. could violate national regulations barring “messages that go against the whole education of boys, girls and adolescents.” “Baywatch Hawaii,” with its lifeguarding bikini-wearing beauties and muscle-bound hunks, took over the time slot on Friday.
Arts, Briefly: Stone Temple Pilots to Rock Again

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 4:51am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

The Grammy Award-winning Stone Temple Pilots, after a five-year breakup and a nearly eight-year absence from concerts, plan to reunite for a 65-city North American tour that will begin on May 17 in Columbus, Ohio, The Associated Press reported. “The story’s not finished,” the singer Scott Weiland said. “There’s more to be revealed and more to be told.” Founded in 1992, the rock band, including the brothers Dean DeLeo (guitarist) and Robert DeLeo (bass) and the drummer Eric Kretz, has sold more than 35 million albums worldwide.
Arts, Briefly: Judge Jails Pete Doherty

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 4:50am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

The trouble-prone British rocker Pete Doherty, right, was sentenced on Tuesday to 14 weeks in jail for violating the terms of his probation, Reuters reported. The punishment cost Mr. Doherty, the 29-year-old Babyshambles frontman, a major solo engagement at the Royal Albert Hall on April 26 and an appearance the next day at the “Love Music Hate Racism” concert in London. He is also scheduled to perform at the Glastonbury Festival, June 27 to 29. In a statement about the Royal Albert Hall postponement, his record label, Parlophone, said, “Peter was very much looking forward to the show and would like to offer his sincerest apologies to all his fans and all those concerned.” At a hearing in West London Magistrate’s Court Mr. Doherty was jailed for violating probation and using drugs, the BBC reported. In earlier proceedings he was given a suspended jail sentence for drug possession and driving illegally last October. His supervision order required him to visit court regularly to make progress reports and to take part in a rehabilitation program. The BBC reported that he had missed one appointment with his probation officer and was late for another.
Arts, Briefly: Hacker Artists Cleared in Czech TV Stunt

Posted: March 27th, 2008, 4:48am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

A Czech judge dismissed charges on Tuesday against seven artists accused of scaremongering by Czech Television after they hacked into a live broadcast in June and superimposed images of a nuclear explosion on a picture of mountains being used as the backdrop for a weather forecast, above, Agence France-Presse reported. At the end of a six-hour hearing in the Trutnov regional court, the judge, Stanislava Suchankova, said: “The images of the explosion could not have created public unrest. People were rather amused at how easy it was to disrupt the signal.” Cheers and applause welcomed the decision, but the state prosecutor, Zdena Hourova, said the state would consider an appeal. The artists of the Ztohoven collective had faced a maximum sentence of three years in jail. The stunt, which was posted on the Internet, attracted international notice and won them a national prize for young artists.
Arts, Briefly: Tate Britain to Send 100 Turners to Moscow

Posted: March 27th, 2008, 4:11am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

A Russian billionaire is bankrolling an exhibition that will send about 100 paintings by J. M. W. Turner to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow from Tate Britain in London in November, Reuters reported. The show will be the first Turner exhibition in Russia since 1975. “The generations have changed since Turner was last in Moscow, and it’s important that the young see him,” said Zinaida Bonami, deputy director of the Pushkin. The man behind the deal is the Russian metals magnate Alisher Usmanov, ranked 142nd last year on the Forbes list of the world’s wealthiest people.
Arts, Briefly: Footnotes

Posted: March 27th, 2008, 4:10am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

Bob Dylan, below, will join Amy Winehouse, the Police and other performers at the Rock in Rio festival in Madrid in July, Agence France-Presse reported. ... “On Departure,” the first play in nearly two decades by the former Czech president Vaclav Havel, will have its premiere on May 22 at the Archa Theater in Prague, Agence France-Presse reported. ... Justin Timberlake will serve as the host of the annual ESPY Awards at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on July 20, The Associated Press reported. “I’ll do my best to deliver a great show, as I do not want to be roughed up backstage by these athletes who are bigger, faster and stronger than me,” he said.
Arts, Briefly: Oscar Claim Rejected

Posted: March 27th, 2008, 4:10am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

No Oscar for Bob Yari. That was the decision by the Second District Court of Appeal in California, which decided that Mr. Yari, below, was not entitled to a statuette even though he was one of the six credited producers of the 2005 film “Crash,” winner of the Academy Award for best film, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Yari sued after the Producers Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences named only two people as producers for purposes of Oscar credit. He contended that the snub damaged his reputation, but the appeals court ruled that private organizations can make their own decisions about their awards. Mr. Yari called the decision “unfortunate.” Bruce Davis, executive director of the academy, said it was “nice to be assured that the courts don’t want to be in the business of deciding who wins an Academy Award.”.

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