“The anonymous gas station operator whose shop walls were graced with a Banksy mural, which he subsequently cut out and put up for auction, has decided to come forward. Eytan Rosenberg, 44, owned the garage on the corner of Beverly Boulevard and La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles with his family.”
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Hedge Fund Mogul Buys Steinway & Sons For $512 Million
“John A. Paulson, the hedge fund billionaire, already owns three Steinway & Sons pianos; the medium model M grand, the larger model O and the nearly seven-foot-long model B, together worth tens of thousands of dollars. But Mr. Paulson, in investing parlance, was looking to increase his exposure.”
Art Blogs Stage A “Day For Detroit”
“The premise is simple and elegant: Use the Internet to a) spread the word to a diverse, international art audience about what could be lost if any sale goes forward; b) suggest that readers expand the process by posting their own links and images to social media sites such as Twitter and Instagram; and c) generate support for the Detroit Institute of Arts by asking readers to click through and buy a museum membership (an individual membership starts at $65).”
Mexican Youths, Despite Macho Culture, Turn To Studying Ballet
“In a country well known for its deeply-ingrained machismo, a group of pioneering young male ballet dancers have been tackling the country’s traditional values as they learn to dance. Ivonne Robles Gil has played a major role in breaking down ingrained ideas about traditional male roles by training more than 50 young men in classical dance.”
Quantifying The Gulf Between Movie Critics And The Public
Catherine Rampell, an economics columnist who doubles as a critic, crunches data from Rotten Tomatoes.
Vivien Leigh’s Archives Go To Victoria & Albert Museum
The collection “includes diaries, scrap books, heavily annotated scripts, photographs including hundreds of rare early colour photographs she took herself while on tour, and thousands of letters to an extraordinarily wide circle of friends and acquaintances including the Queen Mother, Graham Greene, and Winston Churchill” (not to mention husband Laurence Olivier).
China Settles With Hollywood Studios Over Film Distribution Fees
“Hollywood studios will soon begin receiving overdue payments for the distribution of their films in China … About $200 million in payments had been withheld by the China Film Group, which oversees the importation of foreign films into China, while the group disputed its responsibility for the payment of a new value-added tax on theater tickets.”