Monster Mash: Drilling for Leonardo Da Vinci; ‘Once’ to Broadway
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Digging deep: Art experts have signed a petition calling for the end to drilling into a fresco in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio, where a hidden Leonardo Da Vinci work is believed to reside. (BBC News)
Indie: ‘Once,’ the new stage musical based on the popular 2007 movie, has set an opening day on Broadway for March 18. (Broadway World)
High bidding: Pieter Brueghel II’s ‘The Battle between Carnival and Lent’ was sold for 6.9 million pounds Tuesday night at Christie’s auction of old master paintings in London. (Reuters)
Unconventional: A hotel in Melbourne, Australia, is challenging guests to steal a work by street artist Banksy that is displayed on its walls. (The Australian)
Biblical: The Getty has purchased a medieval sculpture of St. John the Baptist. (Los Angeles Times)
Almost over?: Could the recently opened Broadway musical ‘Bonnie & Clyde’ be closing its doors soon? (Broadway World)
Anarchic spirit: Graffiti artists are leaving their mark on the walls of Tripoli, Libya. (BBC News)
Money talks: The renaming of the Miami Art Museum after a donor is causing spirited debate. (Miami Herald)
Stepping down: Adrian Ellis, the executive director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, will be leaving his post in early January. (New York Times)
In the red: The Minnesota Orchestra has reported a deficit of $2.9 million, the largest in the organization’s history. (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
Legal agreement: Descendants of an Illinois industrialist have reached a settlement over the ownership of a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. (Chicago Tribune)
New job: Andreas Mitisek, the artistic director of Long Beach Opera, is taking on a concurrent position at the Chicago Opera Theater. (Los Angeles Times)
Passing: Leo Friedman, a photographer of the Broadway theater scene, has died at 92. (New York Times)
Also in the L.A. Times: Center Theatre Group will host the current Broadway revival of ‘Follies,’ filling the gap created by the cancellation of ‘Funny Girl.’
-- David Ng
