Arts News Roundup: January 19, 2011

From Contra Costa Times:
S.F. Opera Finally Snags John Adams’ ‘Nixon In China’ For Its 89th Season
San Francisco Opera announces its 2011-12 season.

From the Hollywood Foreign Press Association:
Nominations and Winners
Find out who the 2010 Golden Globe winners were. (And, if you want to know what all the fuss is about, check out Ricky Gervais’s Monologue on Hulu.com.)

From SFGate:
Choreographer Katie Faulkner Wins Audience Award
Faculty member at University of San Francisco and UC Berkeley wins $10,000 prize. Also, read the controversy behind this AWARD show at AWARD Show raises sticky issues.

From SFGate:
Melissa Etheridge to Step into ‘American Idiot’
Etheridge will temporarily replace Oakland native Billie Joe Armstrong (from the band Green Day) in his Broadway musical, American Idiot.

From SFGate:
Pop Quiz: Joe Satriani
San Francisco transplant Satriani has released a solo album.

From SFGate:
James L. Brooks to Be Honored by SF Sketchfest
Film director Brooks (The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Taxi) tweets that he’s “just a regular guy.”

From The Bay Citizen:
KUSF Off the Air; Details Emerging
The college radio station KUSF comes off the FM dial to become the classical music station, KDFC.

From The Bay Citizen:
Jeff Koons Sends Cease-and-Desist to SF’s Park Life Store
Exclusive rights to make balloon dogs? Oh please…

From The New York Times:
Ford Foundation to Put Up $50 Million for Documentaries
The foundation announces a five-year plan to fund docs that are focused on social issues.

From The New York Times:
Guggenheim Considers a Museum in Helsinki
If the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (scheduled to open in 2013) wasn’t enough, a sixth Guggenheim is being discussed.

From The New York Times:
New Doubts for a Film That Has Truth Issues
As Banksy’s film, Exit Through the Gift Shop advances to the documentary shortlist for the Academy Awards, more controversy arises.

From The New York Times:
Laura Linney to Return to Broadway Following Loss
Masterpiece Classic host, Linney returns to Broadway’s Time Stands Still after her father’s death on Saturday.

From The New York Times:
Shepard Fairey and The A.P. Settle Legal Dispute
The legal battle over the “Hope” poster (picturing Barack Obama) has been settled between the street artist and The Associated Press. Or has it?

From The New York Times:
Chinese Authorities Raze an Artist’s Studio
The studio of artist Ai Weiwei, whose work is represented by the Haines Gallery in San Francisco, was demolished ahead of schedule.