Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines
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Porn or art? A Vienna museum explores the boundaries between pornography and the visual arts. Mark Domage’s photograph at right is part of the conversation.
Art or porn? An anti-censorship group has condemned an Ohio university’s decision to remove a sculpture that allegedly depicts a sexual act between a teacher and a student.
Feeling better: Stacy Keach will return to the Ahmanson Theatre for the remainder of the ‘Frost/Nixon’ run. The actor discussed his mild stroke last week with Culture Monster’s Mike Boehm.
Fighting for survival: The Cleveland Orchestra will undergo significant budget cuts in response to declining ticket sales and a shrinking endowment.
Starchitect: Frank Gehry says his Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn probably won’t happen.
Theater tirade: Director Terry Kinney responds heatedly (and profanely) to rumors that his Broadway production of Neil LaBute’s ‘reasons to be pretty’ is in trouble.
That ‘90s show: Playwright and screenwriter Peter Morgan (‘Frost/Nixon’) is slated to pen an HBO movie about the Clintons.
Art prize: Artist Michael Vissochi has won the 2009 Jerwood Sculpture Prize for a work that is intended to provoke thought about renewable energy.
Screen to stage: Oscar-winning filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky will make his operatic directorial debut next year in Vienna with Carl Maria von Weber’s ‘Der Freischuetz.’ Ruzowitzky received a best-foreign-language film Oscar last year for ‘The Counterfeiters.’
-- David Ng
Photo: Tatiana Trouvé, Totem, 2006, by Mark Domage / Johann König, Berlin
