A number of cruise-ship art buyers “claim in a legal summons they are victims of a carefully orchestrated fraud which has left them with pictures that are either valueless fakes, or genuine but commonly available works that are worth a fraction of their eye-watering sale price.”
Tag: 07.18.09
Latest Tonys Error: Dumping The Press
“In dumping the press, the Tony brains have eliminated the only voting group with no axe to grind beyond personal quirks and taste. The 700 other voters are the producers themselves and members of the various Broadway unions — people who can generally be counted on to vote for their own shows (or ones their friends are in).”
New Lit Prize To Honor Harold Pinter
Their work must fulfill the vision for writing that Pinter set out in his 2005 Nobel acceptance speech – turning an “unflinching, unswerving” gaze upon the world, and showing a “fierce intellectual determination … to define the real truth of our lives and our societies”.
National Ballet Of Canada Posts $1 Million Deficit
“While ticket sales recovered part way through the year, many seats were sold at the cut-rate price of $20 to people between the ages of 16 and 29 as part of a program to attract a younger audience.”
The Brain, Your Muscles, And How Far You Can Go
“The role of the brain in determining how far and hard we can exercise — its role, in other words, in fatigue — is contentious. Until recently, most researchers would have said that the brain played little role in determining how hard we can exercise. But there are problems with the idea that fatigue involves only the muscles.”
Why Music Is Disappearing In Britain
“Live music is fast disappearing from pubs, clubs, wine bars, restaurants and other small venues, musicians claim, because of a law passed in 2003, when the Government was trying to eliminate teenage violence that they associated with badly organised music events.”