“With art from Asia and Russia in demand, some in the art world are betting on Cuba to be the next hot corner of the market. Prices for Cuban art are climbing at galleries and auction houses, and major museums are adding to their Cuban collections.”
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The Forgotten Dancer
“Lydia Lopokova, the Russian ballerina who danced with Diaghilev and in 1925 became John Maynard Keynes’s wife, has been treated by most historians of Bloomsbury as one of the group’s more colourful but irrelevant satellites. Her dancing career has rarely been accorded more than a footnote, her presence in Bloomsbury represented by the occasional quirky anecdote.’
The Stratford Festival Counts On One
“In 18 seasons at the helm of that once-comatose regional theatre, Des McAnuff earned a fearsome reputation as a visionary who could be brilliant, maddening and egotistical, a personally and professionally provocative director who demanded the best of his actors, designers and craftspeople and, in turn, gave the same of himself. Yet while McAnuff has a reputation as an adept charmer, he is not known as a man who likes to share power, nor will he back down from a fight.”