“The Toledo Museum of Art said it saw no signs of trouble when it bought the small bronze statue of a Hindu deity in 2006 from a New York dealer now charged in India. The statue resembles an idol now listed as stolen in India.”
Tag: 03.06.14
Russian Court Reduces Sentence Of Man Convicted In Bolshoi Acid Attack
“Pavel Dmitrichenko, a Bolshoi soloist, was convicted in December of organizing the attack and sentenced to six years in prison. The Moscow City Court on Thursday reduced his sentence by six months to 5½ years.”
Big Concerns About The Scale Of Massive Picasso Restorations In Paris
“What comes as a truly horrible surprise is that all of Picasso’s 5,000 works have been “cleaned, restored and reframed” for the opening. It beggars belief that some urgent “conservation” necessity should have struck all of these modern works at the same time.”
Canadian Theatres Have Their Own Pipelines (Or Do They?)
“Has the theatre pipeline that supplies Canada’s regionals really sprung a leak? One piece of good news is that, this season, for the first time in recent memory, the most-seen new play in the country hasn’t been a recent Broadway or West End hit, but one born in Toronto.”
This Year’s PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize Finalists
This year’s judges were Madison Smartt Bell, Manuel Muñoz and Achy Obejas. They considered more than 400 titles published by American authors in 2013.
Sean Potts, Co-Founder of The Chieftains, Dead at 83
A virtuoso of the humble tin whistle, Potts joined Paddy Moloney and colleagues in 1962 to join the group that went on to become global megastars of Irish folk music.
RSC’s ‘Wolf Hall’/’Bring Up the Bodies’ Headed to West End
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s two-part staging of Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning novels about Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII have been playing to packed houses in Stratford-upon-Avon since December.
‘The Best Six Months of My Writing Life’: Hilary Mantel on Putting Her Cromwell Novels Onstage
“I’ve had so much inspiration from what happens on stage night by night – and I’ve understood things that I don’t think I did understand before about the characters.”
An Autobiography Ghostwriter’s Nightmare
Andrew O’Hagan recounts the fiasco that was his attempted collaboration with Julian Assange, the worst autobiography subject ever.