Monster Mash: Ring Festival debate resumes; Wikipedia battle heats up; Pina Bausch film to continue; Spiral Jetty in danger
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-- Debate over anti-Semitism: L.A. County Supervisor Mike Antonovich today will introduce a measure to celebrate composers beyond Wagner in Los Angeles Opera’s 2010 Ring Festival.
-- Major commission: Sir Norman Foster and Rem Koolhaas selected for $2.7-billion master plan for West Kowloon cultural district in Hong Kong.
-- Public service mission?: Wikipedia fires back at Britain’s National Portrait Gallery in a dispute over images appearing on the online encyclopedia site.
-- Danger to iconic artwork: Proposed industrial expansion on Great Salt Lake poses threat to artist Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty.
-- Project continues: Director Wim Wenders moves ahead with his 3-D dance film about Pina Bausch, who died last month.
-- Notable name: ‘Dancing With the Stars’ judge Carrie Ann Inaba joins production team of Broadway-bound ‘Burn the Floor.’
-- Challenges facing institutions: Why the arts don’t pay for themselves.
-- Backers needed: Lack of funds force cancellation of Autry’s 41st annual Pow Wow.
-- Birthday bash: Ravinia Festival in Chicago plans a big celebration of Stephen Sondheim’s birthday next year.
-- Public funds: Nigerian art chiefs charged in theft of more than $6.8 million meant for the National Gallery of Art.
-- Starting young: 16-year-old Ilyich Rivas to conduct 22-year-old violinist Elena Urioste in Atlanta Symphony Orchestra concert.
-- Yuck: A playwright’s tomb is one of the 5 germiest tourist attractions, according to TripAdvisor.com
-- Here we go again: Another debate over when to applaud at a classical music performance.
-- Lisa Fung
Top photo: Mike Antonovich. Credit: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times. Bottom photo: A participant in last year’s Autry Pow Wow. Credit: Abel Gutierrez