Art

Faced with a severe financial crisis, officials of the Museum of Contemporary Art have had talks about a possible joint venture or merger with several other Los Angeles institutions.  

Hundreds of artifacts are being prepared for the opening on Tuesday of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC, a $9 million branch of the Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.  

“Pour Your Body Out,” a site-specific installation by the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, is arguably the first project to humanize the atrium of the Museum of Modern Art.  

For Steven Blier, a pianist and the artistic director of the New York Festival of Song, Alexander Zemlinsky’s “Meeraugen” suggested a concert.  

Eli Broad, the philanthropist whose gift financed a new contemporary-art building this year at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is planning to build another exhibition space for his vast collection.  

The Cleveland Museum of Art has agreed to hand over 13 ancient artifacts and an early Renaissance cross to Italy after long negotiations.  

Even before the full board of New York City Opera learned that its proposed savior, Gerard Mortier, was saying goodbye, its chairwoman had turned to a man known in the arts as a turnaround specialist.  

Mr. Krugier survived two years in Nazi concentration camps and went on to become a highly regarded dealer of work by artists like Picasso, Morandi, Balthus and Giacometti.  

National Public Radio announced that it had chosen the firm Hickok Cole Architects to design its new headquarters in Washington. The firm, led by Michael E. Hickok and Yolanda Cole, was chosen over three other contenders for a design that will incorporate an existing four-story building at 1111...  

Parsons the New School for Design will begin offering a Master of Fine Arts degree in interior design starting in its fall 2009 session, the school announced Tuesday. The two-year program, which will be offered in addition to the school’s existing interior design curriculum, will be housed in the...  

The district attorney’s office of Clark County, Nev., is seeking criminal charges against the hip-hop mogul Marion Knight, known as Suge, below, The Associated Press reported. A criminal complaint was sent to the Las Vegas Justice Court on Monday charging Mr. Knight with two counts of felony drug...  

Drawing an average of 19.7 million viewers, ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” delivered Monday night’s largest television audience, according to Nielsen’s estimates. The reality competition helped the network finish No. 1 for the night, despite modest ratings for “Samantha Who?” (11.1 million) and...  

A lawyer for Michael Jackson, below, said that the pop star may be too sick to travel to London to testify in a suit filed against him by a Bahrainian prince, The Associated Press reported. Sheik Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the second son of the king of Bahrain, filed suit against Mr. Jackson...  

The 2009 national tour of “Dreamgirls,” the musical by Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen oh-so-loosely based on the Supremes, will have its premiere at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.  

Stéphane Lissner, the general director and artistic director of La Scala opera in Milan, Italy, will stay on through 2013, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Lissner, the first non-Italian to run the house in more than 200 years, joined La Scala in 2005; his contract was set to expire in 2009. A...