Ohio museum of art selects new chief

August 28, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

CLEVELAND

The deputy director of the National Gallery of Canada has been hired to lead the Cleveland Museum of Art as it heads into the final years of a major expansion project. The museum said Trustees voted unanimously to hire David Franklin as director, replacing interim director Deborah Gribbon, effective Sept. 20.

The appointment of Franklin, who has lived and worked in his native Canada and in London, Oxford and Rome, comes as the Cleveland museum heads into the final three years of a $350 million renovation and expansion. Franklin, 49, said he was looking forward to making the museum, whose collection contains more than 30,000 artworks spanning thousands of years, even more meaningful and relevant.

AIDS group targets Flynt’s porn films

LOS ANGELES

An AIDS activist group filed a workplace safety complaint against Larry Flynt on Thursday, accusing the porn king of creating an unsafe environment for his stable of sex stars by not requiring that they use condoms. To illustrate its point, the AIDS Health Foundation also delivered 100 DVDS of hardcore Flynt films to the state Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s Los Angeles office. Only a single scene in one of the films shows a performer using a condom, said AHF spokesman Ged Kenslea. It urges the state agency to order the use of condoms on film sets.

Larry Flynt Productions President Michael Klein indicated that is an unreasonable demand, adding porn audiences don’t want to watch people using condoms.

Iglesias marries longtime partner

MADRID

Spanish singer Julio Iglesias has married Dutch model Miranda Rijnsburger, his partner for the past 20 years. The 66-year-old singer announced the marriage in a statement to Spanish newspapers. The wedding took place Tuesday at the Virgen del Carmen church in the southern jet-set resort of Marbella.