Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines
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Journalism imitating art: The Associated Press photo of Barack Obama that inspired Shepard Fairey’s ‘Hope’ poster is now for sale at a New York gallery in a limited edition of 200. The prints are selling for a reported $1,200 apiece. Times art critic Christopher Knight recently reviewed the much-talked-about Shepard Fairey exhibition at Boston’s ICA.
Won’t make the same mistake as AIG: Sotheby’s has eliminated the annual cash bonus for its CEO, William F. Ruprecht, and cut his salary by $100,000 to $600,000 after the art-auction house posted an 87% drop in profits for last year.
Stars take to the stage: Annette Bening, Laurence Fishburne and Matthew Modine are slated to top-line the Geffen Playhouse’s 2009-10 season.
Another star takes to the stage: Anne Hathaway will star as Judy Garland in upcoming stage and film adaptations of Gerald Clarke’s biography ‘Get Happy,’ produced by Harvey Weinstein.
Bucking the trend: The University of Michigan Museum of Art reopens following a $42-million expansion that includes 53,000 square feet of new space.
No atomic bombs this time: John Adams’ opera-oratorio ‘The Flowering Tree’ will be performed at this year’s Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center. Peter Sellars will direct the production.
Ambitious season: New works by Lisa Kron, Naomi Iizuka and songwriter Matthew Sweet will be part of Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s 2009-10 season. Also scheduled is the West Coast premiere of several short plays by Tony Kushner.
Home from the hospital: Actor Stacy Keach is recuperating at home after suffering a mild stroke. No word yet whether he will return to the Ahmanson Theatre for the remainder of the ‘Frost/Nixon’ run.
Passing: California photographer Pirkle Jones has died at 95. He was known for his images of migrant workers, landscapes and radical social movements.
-- David Ng
