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Among the paintings and sculptures collected by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen were works by Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh.

Unlike many millionaires who invest in art, Allen had chosen the works in his collection himself. Paul G. Allen died in 2018.

A total of 60 works were auctioned at Christie’s in New York for $1.5 billion. At today’s exchange rate, the sum is almost the same in euros.

No single art auction has ever raised such a pot.

Record prices also for individual works

The price of five works reached over one hundred million dollars, which has never happened in a single auction.

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The largest art auction in history raised $1.5 billion – Microsoft millionaire Paul Allen’s collection was like a lesson in art historyRead More »

Six works are competing for the Finlandia Prize for Fiction. The winner will be chosen by Bishop Mari Leppänen.

The Finlandia Prize is the most prestigious literary prize in Finland. The prize is worth €30 000.

The winners of the fiction and other Finlandia prizes will be announced on Wednesday 30 November. The awards ceremony will start at 19:00 and can be watched on Yle TV1 and Areena.

Young composers perform their works for the symphony orchestra in the Uuno Klami composition competition.

Composers of the future face each other in the Uuno Klami composition competition. The youth final concerts will be played today, Wednesday, in Kotka and tomorrow, Thursday, at Kuusankoskitalo.

The national competition, organized every five years, is intended for composition enthusiasts and students aged 10–19. With it, we want to strengthen young composers’ finding their own voice.

In the composition competition, compositions written by young people and their live performances, performed by Kymi Sinfonietta, are competed for.

The composer opens his heart to the audience

Now he has arrived in Kotka to rehearse his piece *La pájara* with the symphony orchestra.

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Kari Ketonen doubled his income, Mikko Leppilammella also wipes well. Many professionals in the film industry increased their income like Donald Duck. Among the authors, detective stories and Mauri Kunnas earned the most.

Birn increased his income in the second half of the year by a couple of ten thousand euros. In 2020, Birn starred in no less than five films. He has recently also built an international career.

Sorjos screenwriter’s income doubled

Many domestic TV and film industry professionals also increased their incomes.

Finlandia increased Anni Kytömäki’s income tenfold

The director of the National Theater has the highest income

Management positions in domestic cultural and art institutions do make money, but not quite as much as the brightest stars in the entertainment and literary fields.

The classical musical fills the stands at the Joensuu City Theatre. Three actors take turns in the role of Eliza Doolittle.

The story of Eliza Doolittle, who sells flowers on the streets, and from whom upper-class men decide to school the countess, appeals to the audience at the Joensuu City Theatre.

The classic musical My Fair Lady runs to almost full audiences, even though the story has been seen on the big screen already 70 years ago, and has been told countless times on the stages of Finnish theaters over the decades.

The Broadway musical is a big effort for the Joensuu City Theater. Three alternating actors are needed for the main role, and the entire large stage is harnessed for a grand musical, including orchestras and dancers.

\\- What if we have full stands. Let’s just let it go.

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My Fair Lady is a timeless classic, whose fresh interpretation is charming in the Joensuu City TheatreRead More »

The income of the music industry was unevenly affected by Corona in 2021. Many high-income earners held their own, but some saw their income drop dramatically. On the classical side, the rise was big.

Corona continued to affect the income of cultural people and especially performing artists in 2021. There were hardly any performance opportunities and big festivals last year.

At the top of the three are Samu Haber, Tuomas Holopainen and Stig

Despite the corona, many top Finnish musicians still earned several hundreds of thousands of euros.

The most popular songs of 2021 with Lauri Tähkä and Portion Boys

Conductors earn hundreds of thousands of euros

Six works are competing for the Finlandia prize for children’s and youth literature. The prize amount is 30,000 euros.

The Finnish Book Foundation has announced six candidates for this year’s Finlandia Prize for children’s and young people’s literature. This article presents the works and the selection board’s reasoning.

Here are the nominees:

Katja Bargum, illustration by Jenny Lucander: Myrornas rekordbok / Record book of ants (Förlaget / Teos), translated by Veera Antsalo

As the name suggests, the children’s book is about the world of ants. The book answers many amazing questions. It is amazing alone that there are more than 12,000 species of ants in the world.

The jury was particularly attracted by the ant’s humor and the apt examples that make you feel the joy of learning and discovery.

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Finlandia nominees for children’s and young people’s literature have adventures with porridge and wonder about antsRead More »

Green will start his position at the beginning of next year.

Selma Green has been the director of the Swedish art museum Konstmuseet i Norr and the museums of the city of Vaasa for a total of more than ten years.

In addition, he has edited several fine arts publications, lectured on art history and contemporary art, and worked as an amanuensis, exhibition secretary and cultural producer in fine arts organizations and art museums.

Selma Green says in the press release that she accepts the new task with enthusiasm, because the activities of the Tampere Art Museum and the Moomin Museum combine her long-standing passion for art history, collaboration with contemporary artists, and a lively connection with the art museum’s audiences and partners.

– During her career, Selma Green has developed several museum organizations from the perspectives of contents, structures and operating processes. In his work, Green has also brought to the fore the themes of inclusive museum operations, accessibility and diversity, says Ahonen in the press release.

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Art historian Selma Green has been elected as the director of the Tampere Art MuseumRead More »

The Swedish Kjell Engman’s glass art can be seen in the changing exhibition of the music museum Fame. Olli Ilmolahti, the director of the museum undergoing corporate restructuring, looks to the future with confidence.

The long-established Swedish glass artist followed on the spot when his latest body of work was hung in the Fame exhibition room of the music museum in Tripla, Pasila.

This time, Engman and his team have produced glass instruments. The objects are full of details, the light plays on their surfaces. The atmosphere is completed by a video piece projected on the wall and a soundscape, which was created by Fame’s working group.

When the exhibition was finished, Engman claimed the chair. Engman sat, watched and listened for more than two hours. Glass, sound, colors and lights created a unique world.

Later he did the same thing again.

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Fame music museum settled its debts and now delights with glass instruments – artist: \”This would not be possible with other materials\”Read More »

The Espoo Museum of Modern Art has received a long-term loan of art from Kyösti Kakkonen’s internationally significant collection of more than 10,000 works.

– A connection of fate!

The large-sized sculpture has ceramic beads on metal wires and dials on the front. All clocks have the same time of 12:15.

First, Kyösti Kakkonen fell in love with the sculpture. The \”connection of fate\” was born later, when he found out that he himself was born at exactly 12:15 p.m.

Birger Kaipiainen’s *Helmilintu* is one of the valuable works on display at EMMA, Espoo’s modern art museum.

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Tokmanni millionaire Kakkonen lent his valuable art objects to EMMA in Espoo: \”Even though I’m a merchant, I’ve never sold these\”Read More »