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Last fall, Institute officials made a bold statement against a U.S. immigration policy that barred people infected with the HIV virus from entering the country, by moving the VIII International AIDS Conference from its planned location in Boston to Amsterdam...
Cambridge Society for Early Music--presents music for 17th-century Amsterdam and London. First Religious Society, Carlisle. Thursday, March 5, 8 p.m. Josiah Smith Tavern, Weston. Friday, March 6, 8 p.m. $15 general; $7 for students...
...contract and his own magnetism to translate a deep personal identification into an enduring Mahler revival. In 1985 Bernstein undertook to re-record the nine symphonies, plus the Adagio from the unfinished 10th, live for Deutsche Grammophon, using three virtuoso orchestras: the New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. Result: this definitive 13-disc boxed set. Bernstein finds the universal in Mahler's exquisite, often tortured, self-consciousness; the metaphysical beneath the moody, vivid surfaces. In struggling to understand fate, Mahler found despair, strength, ineffable loss and radiant affirmation. Yet it is ultimately in the music...
American Modernist Barnett Newman's giant abstract painting Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III was the pride of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum before a vandal slashed it in 1986. At the time, the painting was valued at $3.1 million. Last August, after U.S. art restorer Daniel Goldreyer repaired the damage for a fee of $300,000, Who's Afraid was again put on display. Now Dutch art experts are seeing red. Amsterdam art historian Ernst van de Wetering has charged that Goldreyer covered the entire canvas using a roller rather than reproducing Newman's brushstrokes...
...concluded that Goldreyer had not matched the original oils. Instead, the lab reported, the restorer had used alkyd, a synthetic paint commonly used on window frames. Goldreyer has acknowledged that he covered the canvas with an alkyd "seal" to protect the work, but contends his restoration was faithful. The Amsterdam cultural committee plans to try to recoup at least the restoration costs...