Maintaining a major artistic role at the Met while directing the Boston Symphony will not be easy.
Mark Volpe, the Boston Symphony's managing director, said that in November he and Mr. Levine began discussing an "evolving artistic role".
The contemporary challenge, it seems, is to strike a balance between the museum's artistic role and its commercial services, like shops and restaurants.
They were also close to Alberto Giacometti, who was an important artistic role model for Mrs. Matter and a frequent photographic subject for her husband.
JEFF KOONS, an American artist who seems to be perpetually reinventing himself, may soon be taking on a new artistic role: renovator of a historic Upper East Side town house.
In a lengthy chapter of his forthcoming book, "The Fan Who Knew Too Much," he not only pays homage to the artistic role of gays and bisexuals, but also accuses black Christians, clergy and laity alike, of hypocrisy in opposing same-sex marriage while relying on gay people for much of the sacred music of the black church.
Mr. Bonet's artistic role in the Sagrada Familia's completion, however, is far less controversial than the angular and abstract additions of Josep Maria Subirachs, a Catalan artist who started working on one of the Sagrada Família's façades in the 1980s.
The inherent features of arts centres – their multidisciplinary context and the community, civic and artistic role they play – can make it difficult to pin down their identities, and often lead to them being underrepresented in the media and public dialogue around the arts.
The discussion of cultural identity and confrontation with its societal and artistic role has certainly lost none of its urgency.
But Lawrence went through with it, mailing a floppy disk full of period pieces to a web developer, and played the important artistic role of trendsetter.
