European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 03, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse J 1990 was the year of Van Gogh who died 100 years before. Van Gogh s Quot portrait of a or. Gachet Quot right sold for $82.5 million making it Fie world s most expensive painting. Below a 1980 self portrait of Robert a Mapplethorpe whose sexually graphic photographs were Fie Center of controversy. 1.2 million visitors Over four months. And scientific research was published positing that Van Gogh Cut off his ear and later killed himself because of a painful but undiagnosed inner ear infection not madness. Picasso s step daughter donated More than 400 of his works to the French government in partial payment of inheritance taxes _ some liveth and some Tabeth away 1990 was also the year of one of history s biggest Art thefts. Two robbers dressed As police officers stole works from the Isabella. Stewart Gardner museum in Boston valued at hundreds of a millions of dollars. Rembrandt s Quot the night watch was vandalized april 6 when a visitor sprayed it with an unidentified chemical a it was a year of round figures for musical institutions Carnegie Hal celebrated its 100th season the same anniversary for the Chicago symphony and the invention of the saxophone. The Philadelphia symphony had its 90th birthday and the appointment of a new conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch. Claudio Abrado took charge of the Berlin philharmonic and Kurt Masur was named Directo Nof the new York philharmonic. T one conducting Force was silenced. Leonard Bernstein America s leading Maestro died at 72. Aaron Copland the nation s leading composer died in december at 90. Singer Pearl Bailey died at 72, jazz legend Art Blakey at 71 and band Leader Xavier Cugat died at age 90. In opera diva Joan Sutherland retired from the stage and Young russian baritone Dmitri a Porostovsky made a splash. The had its first Bona fide. Season in Paris. A above Jonathan Pryce was banned from a Ltd vog his role As a eurasian p no w h n the London a Musk j Quot miss Saigon Quot came to new York left composer and conduit Tor Leonard Hernstein died in 1990. January 3, 1991 stripes Magazine 5
