With a current high estimate of $60.9 million, “the work had been scheduled to be sold by the Lloyd Webber Foundation at Christie’s New York in November 2006” but “was withdrawn after a German academic claimed it was forcibly sold to the Nazis in the mid- 1930s.” The dispute was later settled.
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Art Dubai Isn’t The Scene It Once Was
“A third of last year’s exhibitors are skipping Art Dubai, including dealerships such as London’s Lisson Gallery and New York’s L&M Arts. With booth rates discounted by 20 percent, there are 72 exhibitors — four more than in 2009. About 40 percent are first-timers.”
Ballet Nacional de Cuba, Explained
“Like Cuba itself, the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, which [Alicia] Alonso founded and still rules, is utterly distinctive: it fields world-class dancers at the same time as remaining culturally isolated from the wider ballet world.” (With video.)
Rating Art: The Best Approach To Criticism?
“In fact, in all the interviews with and biographies of great artists I have read, this is how they talk about art. The truth is that overanalysing art, as opposed to intuitively rating it, carries its own dangers.”
The Bookplate Cannot Be Digitized
“Think of a bookplate as a wedding ring binding the reader to the book, and vice versa. The symbolism isn’t so far apart: ownership, possession, desire.” Physicality, it turns out, is crucial to that particular expression of bibliophilic intimacy.
MPAA Head: Protecting Content Is Studios’ No. 1 Concern
Digital content is “available in [people’s] homes, and they feel it’s theirs,” outgoing MPAA chairman Dan Glickman said. “Our job has been to try to educate people that in fact it’s not theirs, unless there’s some form or system for paying for it. At the same time, it’s our responsibility to provide it in ways that are easily accessible and at reasonable prices.”
Toronto Critics Join Call For Iranian Filmmakers’ Release
“[T]he Federation of European Film Directors, the European Film Academy, the Asia-Pacific Screen Awards, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam and Human Rights Watch” have all “asked the Iranian government to either release or charge [Jafar] Panahi and [Mahmoud] Rasoulof.”
Pilobolus Does Its ABCs, In Photos
Hey, that baby they use to make the stem of the Q: Not an actual company member, we’re guessing.
Gardner Heist Author: ‘Run-Of-The-Mill Crooks’ Did It
“The museum was less secure than the average 7-Eleven or bank that night, [Ulrich] Boser said. According to a previous Globe investigation, the Gardner was equipped with only one alarm button and two young guards.”
Prosecutor: Whitey Bulger Didn’t Steal Gardner Paintings
“Assistant US Attorney Brian Kelly, who prosecuted [South Boston gang leader turned fugitive] Bulger and his criminal gang, said that investigators had specifically looked at a possible Bulger link to the crime, including interrogating former Bulger associates Stephen Flemmi and Kevin Weeks, but found no links.”