“The nearly 250-lot auction at Stair Galleries in Hudson, New York, was the first sale of Salander property since the art dealer pleaded guilty on March 18 to grand larceny and fraud in New York State Supreme Court. Salander, 60, was ordered to pay restitution of $120 million.” The sale “of the contents of Salander’s Upper East Side townhouse” netted $472,067.
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Truman Capote’s Home Eyes Brooklyn Real Estate Record
“The spectacular home at 70 Willow St. in Brooklyn Heights – on the market Monday for just the third time in 70 years – is likely to break sales records in the borough and become the most expensive townhouse in its history.” The $18 million price tag is breathtaking, anyway.
Why It’s Bad To Hate A Bookstore For Hosting Karl Rove
“In a world where it is increasingly possible to seclude yourself in a hive with fellow creatures who buzz the way you do, bookstores, like libraries and newspapers, are among the few places where a variety of ideas and opinions can jostle together for your attention. That tolerance of perspectives … isn’t a marketing strategy for those institutions. It’s part of their DNA.”
Parent Who Kept Library Books In Protest Returns Them
“Tina Harden, who had withheld the books” — all “Gossip Girl”-related — “since the fall of 2008 to keep young readers from seeing them, said she returned them not because of criticism she received but because she had made people aware of the issue through media attention.” She “is hoping the library will waive the fines.”
Striking A Pose, Bollywood-Style
“Bollywood’s global appeal may be greater than ever, and the deliriously glitzy, contagiously beat-fuelled dance scenes splashed across cinema screens have triggered much of its success. But there’s a thriving, live side to all the motion, too, and that’s why I’m playing the fool,” trying to learn some moves.
Nominations Closed, 11 Vie To Be Oxford Prof Of Poetry
“Eminent English poet Geoffrey Hill is widely seen as the frontrunner for the post, the most prominent in British poetry behind the poet laureate. … [T]he award-winning 77-year-old Hill has been nominated by more than 70 Oxford graduates and is the best-known name in the running.”
Dudamel Injured While Conducting
“Philharmonic president Deborah Borda said that the 28-year-old Venezuelan music director heard a loud pop and lost sensation on one side. He managed to pump out enough endorphins to keep up a fiery performance, but he did not look himself at the curtain call.”
When The Other Actors Are Grown-Up (The Audience, Too)
The young cast members of “Jerusalem” and “Enron,” in the West End, “do a particular, and quite peculiar, job: they are child actors who perform in a wholly adult environment, in shows their parents would never take them to see.”
UK’s Most-Read Theatre Critic On The Value Of Criticism
Michael Billington: “Opinions are two a penny. What’s damnably difficult is to write well; and, for me, there is still a personal challenge every night in trying to set down my views in 45 minutes with any degree of lucidity. And, when I dip into the critics of the past, it is less for their views on the event than for their style.”
In Stratospheric Picasso Sale, The Public Loses
“One of the last great surprises of 20th-century art has come and gone, photographed in the sale room on its journey from one private collection to another. If it appears in exhibitions in the future that will be the result of curators fawning to some billionaire for a peep at what, in reality, should be the cultural property of us all.”