Thursday's Art Notes

_Flags decorate a field near the Pyramid Stage area on the first day of the "Glastonbury Festival":http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/ in Glastonbury, England. The Glastonbury Festival, which started in 1970, is now the largest music festival in Europe. Photo by Ian Gavan/ Getty Images_ * Repairs to the home of the Nashville Symphony may run upwards of $42 million, via "The Tennesseean":http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100623/NEWS01/6230359/Schermerhorn-Symphony-hall-repairs-escalate-to-42M. Last night, Jeffrey Brown visited Nashville to get an update on flood damage and recovery. You can watch that NewsHour segment "here":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/weather/jan-june10/nashville_06-23.html. * Disney gives $250,000 to a southern California arts non-profit to fund free art lessons for area high school students, via the "Los Angeles Times":http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/06/the-walt-disney-company-is-donating-250000-to-ryman-arts-a-20-year-old-nonprofit-that-provides-free-intensive-weeken.html. * Some New Yorkers have turned the piano art installation 'Play Me, I'm Yours' into an opportunity to strut their stuff, via the "Wall Street Journal":http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704629804575325093972197112.html?mod=WSJ_NY_MIDDLELEADNewsCollection. * The Art Newspaper "talks to":http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Arts-programming-at-the-BBC:-behind-the-scenes/20995 the arts programming commissioner at the BBC about the challenge of producing culturally relevant and on-point public media content in Britain. On this side of the pond, Jeffery Brown "talked to PBS president Paula Kerger":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2010/04/conversation-pbs-president-paul-kereger-is-making-a-push-for-more-arts-programming.html back in April about a new arts initiative to strengthen and reignite arts programming on PBS.