Duke’s auction house said Monday the watercolor “Etreinte,” depicting the artist in an embrace with lover Louise Lenoir, was found propped up against a wall with two equine paintings by British artists George Stubbs and Alfred Munnings.
Tag: 03.31.08
Singer Nancy Wilson Hospitalized With Collapsed Lung
“The 71-year-old Grammy-winning singer was expected to recover but will not be able to make a performance scheduled in Memphis, Tenn., next weekend”
Senate Proposes To Reverse FCC Decision On Media Ownership
“The US Senate Commerce Committee plans to vote Wednesday on legislation that would reverse the FCC’s recent decision lifting the federal ban against joint ownership of a newspaper and a broadcast outlet in the same market.”
Crowds Flock To Monster Piano Show
“Onstage, eight nine-foot pianos with lids removed sat nose to nose, pointed toward the center, where a conductor would stand. A big screen hung above the stage to capture the faculty, students and guests who performed, two at each piano, in images from the roving video cameramen.”
What Split Apart The Actors’ Unions?
“The Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have long sniped at each other over who better represents some 44,000 actors who are members of both groups. The inflamed rhetoric from both unions had the tenor of a steamy romance torn apart by a deceitful affair.”
HBO, ESPN In Canada? Say It Isn’t So!
“A controversial plan that would let top-rated U.S. cable networks such as HBO, ESPN and Nickelodeon into the Canadian market, ending decades of protectionism for domestic television channels, will be considered by broadcast regulators next week.”
Edith Wharton Estate Director Steps Down
The estate has been having money problems. “The organization that owns the estate, Edith Wharton Restoration, has borrowed $4.3 million for operating costs, but in January missed a $30,000 payment, prompting a bank to start foreclosure proceedings.”
Is The BBC Hurting Theatre?
The BBC’s current attitude to theatre is, in my view, nothing short of a disgrace. On the one hand, it lines the coffers of already wealthy impresarios by putting on promotional shows. Far from helping the West End, as it claims, the corporation is actually damaging its ecology.
I Like The Art Hitler Liked? Horrors!
“The news that one of the most compelling pieces of German art in a British collection actually comes with the unsavoury pedigree of having once been owned, looked at and maybe even fantasised over by Hitler is a sad confirmation of the violence done to German history and culture by Germans in the 20th century.”
A Stock Picker Trains His Eye On Broadway
Ted Shen and his foundation have spent more than $4 million subsidizing about 35 nonprofit musical theater productions and 10 cast recordings. “Like the research analyst Shen once was — he followed airline companies at DLJ in the late 1960s and 1970s — he has the philanthropic equivalent of ‘strong buy’ ratings on just a few composers he says are advancing the art form.”