Monster Mash: 9/11 museum faces possible delay; Getty protesters
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Money trouble: The planned 2012 opening of the 9/11 museum at the World Trade Center site could be delayed due to unexpected costs. (Wall Street Journal)
Angered: A group of protesters held a rally outside the Getty Center this past weekend concerning the museum’s ongoing legal battle over a sacred Armenian text. (Los Angeles Times)
Personal cause: Meryl Streep is keeping up her support for a Women’s History Museum. (Washington Post)
Awards contender: ‘Pina,’ the 3-D dance documentary by Wim Wenders about the works of choreographer Pina Bausch, is one of 15 films to make the shortlist of the Oscars’ documentary category. (24 Frames)
Naked: Artist Ai Weiwei said Chinese police have begun investigating his assistant for allegedly spreading pornography online. The investigation appears to stem from a nude art photo depicting Ai and four women. (Associated Press via Washington Post)
Book excerpt: Steven Sondheim asks: Who needs critics? (The Guardian)
Talk of the town: American David Hallberg received mostly praise for his big debut as a member of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. (Los Angeles Times)
Expansion: The Tel Aviv Museum of Art opened a parallelogram in concrete and stone designed by Preston Scott Cohen, with pre-cast curved forms on its outside and Israel’s largest exhibition gallery within. (ArtInfo)
Out of commission: Stockard Channing is taking a brief leave from Broadway’s ‘Other Desert Cities’ to undergo arthroscopic knee surgery on Monday. (Broadway World)
Cultural politics: A Jerusalem dance company is joining in protests against policies concerning women and public spaces. (Haaretz)
London awards: Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch of ‘Frankenstein’ shared best actor honors at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. (What’s On Stage)
Passing: Al Boeke, the developer-architect whose vision spawned the Sea Ranch enclave on the Northern California coast has died at 88. (Los Angeles Times)
Also in the L.A. Times: Art critic Christopher Knight reviews ‘Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan’ at the National Gallery in London as well as the new Clyfford Still Museum in Denver; ‘8,’ the play by Dustin Lance Black about Proposition 8, will debut in L.A. in March.
-- David Ng
