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Arts, Briefly: A Legal Fandango
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 3:26am GMT by Compiled by PETER EDIDIN
Gary Brooker, the lead singer of Procol Harum, has regained sole royalty rights to the band’s 1967 hit “A Whiter Shade of Pale” at the Court of Appeal in London -
Arts, Briefly: The Guitar Gods
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 3:25am GMT by Compiled by PETER EDIDIN
Deep Purple’s 1973 hit “Smoke on the Water” features the greatest guitar riff of all time, according to a poll by a London music school. -
Arts, Briefly: New Choir Director
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 3:25am GMT by Compiled by PETER EDIDIN
Mack Wilberg will replace Craig Jessop, who abruptly resigned last month, as music director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. -
Arts, Briefly: Clooney Trims Ties to Writers Guild
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 3:25am GMT by Compiled by PETER EDIDIN
George Clooney, a staunch supporter of the Writers Guild of America during its recent strike, withdrew from the union after it rejected his request for a writing credit on his film “Leatherheads,” Reuters reported, citing Variety. -
Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 3:23am GMT by Compiled by PETER EDIDIN
Celebrate Brooklyn will open its 30th season on June 12 with a performance by Isaac Hayes and more culture news. -
Arts, Briefly: Turner Apologizes
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 3:23am GMT by Compiled by PETER EDIDIN
Kathleen Turner apologized to Nicolas Cage, her co-star in the film “Peggy Sue Got Married,” for saying he had been arrested twice for drunken driving and once for stealing a Chihuahua, Bloomberg reported. -
Arts, Briefly: Art and the Nazis, Times Two
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:07am GMT by Compiled by Peter Edidin
The Leopold Museum Private Foundation of Vienna has been accused of knowingly purchasing works that could have been stolen by the Nazis, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. A law professor commissioned by Austrian Jews found that at least 11 of the foundation’s works, including some by Egon Schiele (whose “Liegende Frau” is above), Anton Romako and Albin Egger-Lienz, belonged to people persecuted by the Nazis and that the collector Rudolf Leopold certainly knew that they might have been looted. “He knew, or he must have known, that these paintings belonged to people who were persecuted by the Nazis,” said Georg Graf, the professor. “Because of that knowledge, he must have been aware of the possibility that these were stolen goods.” Mr. Leopold, in an interview with Die Presse, disputed the allegation. “In my eyes, the pictures were acquired lawfully,” he said. The Austrian culture minister, Claudia Schmied, said at a news conference this week that she expected the foundation to approve an independent examination of its collection. ... The National Gallery in London said its painting “Cupid Complaining to Venus,” by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder, was once part of Hitler’s private collection and may have been looted during World War II, The Washington Post reported. A researcher, Birgit Schwartz, spotted the painting — showing Cupid complaining to Venus that he has been stung by bees after stealing honey — in a photograph of Hitler’s private gallery contained in an album at the Library of Congress in Washington and brought it to the attention of the National Gallery. The museum has been unable to account for the painting’s ownership or whereabouts from 1909, when it was sold at auction in Berlin, to 1945, when an American war correspondent took it from a warehouse of art guarded by American troops in southern Germany, a National Gallery spokesman said. -
Arts, Briefly: The Stars Return
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:05am GMT by Compiled by Peter Edidin
George Clooney and Renée Zellweger, below, the stars of “Leatherheads,” the new 1920s-era comedy-romance-football movie, returned Thursday to Greenville, S.C., where some of the film’s scenes were shot, The Associated Press reported. The actors greeted fans and accepted keys to the city, more than 400 of whose residents worked as extras on the movie. The city, which reportedly enjoyed its brush with celebrity, decided to hold its own gala premiere on April 4 at the local Camelot Cinemas, the same night that the two stars attend the opening in Hollywood. -
Arts, Briefly: Footnote
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 12:52am GMT by Compiled by PETER EDIDIN
Katie Holmes is in negotiations to star in a Broadway-bound revival of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons,” the British newspaper The Daily Mail reported. John Lithgow is already attached to the production, scheduled to open this fall. Eric Falkenstein, the show’s producer, would not comment on the report; messages left for Ms. Holmes’s agent and publicist were not returned.