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Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
-- Unveiling : Reviews are coming in for architect Zaha Hadid's National Museum of the XXI Century Arts in Rome, even though it is not quite finished. ( Times Online ) -- Legally binding : A Texas jury has upheld the final will of philanthropist and oilman Alfred C. Glassell Jr. against his daughter's attempt to invalidate it. ( Houston Chronicle ) -- Cultural debate : Experts wonder...
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NewsWatch: Energy (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Chron reporter Mary Flood writes today about the battle over the estate of the late oilman and philanthropist Alfred Glassell in today's Chronicle. Was he "a feeble 90-year-old writing a 2003 will while drifting in and out of competency and...
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Two wildly different portraits of oilman and philanthropist Alfred C. Glassell Jr. were painted Tuesday before a jury that will decide how much of his half-billion dollar estate will go to charity and how much to the daughter who is contesting his last will.
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The Composed Gentleman (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Alfred C. Glassell Jr., oil pioneer and cultural philanthropist, died leaving with a half-billion-dollar estate. The problem? He had 9 wills. Now the daughter, 52-year-old single mother of two, Curry Glassell, is contesting the most recent of nine wills. Curry Glassell is arguing in favor of a 1998 will, not the the last will signed in 2003.According to chron, In the 2003...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
"Alfred C. Glassell Jr., founder of Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co., intended to leave about half of his $500 million estate to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and his will should be honored, a lawyer for the museum said." Lawyers for Glassell's daughter say the museum took advantage of an old man....
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Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
-- Stage scare : Conductor Leonard Slatkin suffered a heart attack mid-performance with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in the Netherlands and is now recovering after surgery. ( Detroit Free Press ) -- Money trouble : The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is embroiled in a legal battle with the heirs of oil millionaire Alfred C. Glassell Jr., who left about half of his estate to the institution...
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The daughter of Alfred C. Glassell Jr. claims lawyers coerced him into shrinking her share of the estate and bequeathing it to charity.
