In Friday’s (4/29) New York Times, Robin Pogrebin writes, “Venturing into a possible new area of revenue, Lincoln Center has agreed to serve as a paid adviser to the developers of a proposed performing arts complex in Tianjin, China’s fifth largest city, the center announced on Thursday. … Under the deal, which is subject to the completion of a binding agreement, Lincoln Center will recommend the content of artistic programming, propose an economic model for the performing arts center’s operations, establish a design and construction process, and provide staff training. Center officials already offer informal advice to cultural counterparts who visit the New York campus. … The new Chinese arts center is scheduled to be built in Yujiapu, a development of about 1.5 square miles, which is about 45 minutes by a bullet train from Beijing. In concept Yujiapu is to resemble the Pudong District in Shanghai, which has emerged as China’s financial and commercial hub since it was developed in the 1990s. … Tianjin is in the midst of a major expansion, to be anchored by Yujiapu. The performing arts complex is scheduled to open around 2015.”
Posted April 29, 2011
