ARTS NEWS
SAN ANTONIO
Third Luminaria features new footprint
San Antonio Express News (2/16/10)
Deborah Martin
“Luminaria: Arts Night in San Antonio, the city's annual downtown arts blowout, is doing a little moving this year.”
S.A. Symphony selects a new music director
San Antonio Express News (2/16/10)
David Hendricks
“The San Antonio Symphony will announce today that German conductor Sebastian Lang-Lessing will become the 70-year-old organization's eighth music director, bringing a three-year search to an end.”
TEXAS
Art in Times of Crisis
New America Media (2/14/10)
Lolbé Corona
“Though the economic stimulus to the cultural sector in Texas was scant, for its beneficiaries the funds received were a blessing.”
Dallas Opera offered $10 million challenge grant
Dallas Morning News (2/09/10)
Robert Miller
“An anonymous donor has issued a $10 million challenge grant to jump-start a $20 million fund to increase the Dallas Opera's artistic quality and help recruit a first-rate general director.”
NATIONAL
Broadway Shakes Off the Mid-Winter Chill
The New York Times (2/16/10)
Patrick Healy
“Broadway box offices rebounded robustly last week after three weeks of modest ticket sales during the traditional mid-winter chill for plays and musicals.”
Obama appoints painter, novelist and four non-artists to advisory committe on arts and humanities
The LA Times (2/05/10)
Mike Boehm
“President Obama has picked six people to join the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanties; two of them, painter-photographer Chuck Close and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short-story writer Jhumpa Lahiri, will become the first visual artist and writer on an advisory panel weighted with actors and business people.”
INTERNATIONAL
Playwright breaks 400-year male grip on Globe
The Guardian (2/15/10)
Mark Brown
“Bedlam playwright Nell Leyshon will be the first woman to have a play staged at what is now Shakespeare's Globe.”
Celebrated art of Haiti is buried under rubble
The Guardian (2/15/10)
Tom Phillips
“The earthquake that killed so many also demolished the island's galleries and destroyed thousands of paintings.”
Bolshoi Ballet dancers to perform in Cuba
Reuters (2/05/10)
“Members of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet will perform in Havana's Karl Marx theater next week in their first appearance on the island in 30 years, Cuba's state-run press said on Friday. The return of the Bolshoi comes as part of a renewal of relations between Cuba and Russia, who were Cold War allies for three decades before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.”
Tehran cuts ties with British Museum
Agence France Presse (2/08/10)
Iran cut ties with the British Museum on Sunday in protest at repeated delays in the loan to Tehran of an ancient Persian treasure, the Cyrus Cylinder, a top official said. Hassan Mohseni, a senior official at Iran’s cultural heritage and tourism organization, said relations were annulled after the London museum failed to transfer the artifact to Tehran.