Monster Mash: Battleship Iowa to become museum in L.A. port
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New home: The historic battleship Iowa will become a floating museum at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro. (Navy Times)
Holy book: The Getty Museum has acquired a rare, illuminated Bible from 1200s Italy. (Los Angeles Times)
Cancellations: Conductor James Levine, the music director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, has withdrawn from all fall appearances following a new injury. (Los Angeles Times)
Popular demand: The national tour of ‘The Book of Mormon’ will begin in Denver in August 2012, four months earlier than previously announced. (Playbill)
Agreement: The Montreal Symphony Orchestra has reached a four-year deal with musicians. (Montreal Gazette)
Purchasing power: Art collecting in China is growing among the wealthy classes. (New York Times)
Thinking different: Apple products designed under Jonathan Ive are in the spotlight in a new exhibition at a museum in Hamburg, Germany. (Los Angeles Times)
Looking east: Western opera singers are looking for work in China. (NPR)
Also in the L.A. Times: Art critic Christopher Knight reviews ‘It Happened at Pomona; Part I: Hal Glicksman’ at the Pomona College Museum of Art.
-- David Ng
