“At the center of the current wave of troubles is Guy Wildenstein, 65, the president of Wildenstein & Company, an operation with spaces in New York, Tokyo and Paris. The family has faced controversies in the past, and lawsuits, too, but never in the number or magnitude of those on the docket now.”
Tag: 04.19.11
“Three Cups Of Tea” Publisher To Investigate Author’s Claims
“60 Minutes is a serious news organisation and in the wake of their report, Viking plans to carefully review the material with the author.”
Sebastion Smee On Winning This Year’s Pulitzer For Criticism:
In remarks to the newsroom, Smee lauded the newspaper’s editors for holding to “a belief that the arts matter, and that good writing about the arts is going to be an important part of newspapers as they evolve.”
Montreal Symphony Eagerly Anticipates Its New Concert Hall
“Since the early 1980s, projects to build one have come and gone, victims of changing political power, of lack of financing, of lack of will. … But a hall is finally rising, and while work was behind schedule … orchestra and Quebec government officials promise it will be ready for inaugural concerts in September.”
Afghanistan’s Daring Political Prankster (He’s From Florida)
“Dressed in a police uniform, Aman Mojadidi once set up a fake roadside checkpoint to hand out real money to befuddled Afghan motorists used to paying, not receiving, bribes. Then, during last fall’s parliamentary elections, the Florida-born Afghan artist took his antics a step further by covertly pasting Kabul walls with faux campaign posters that featured him in a black turban with a gold-plated pistol hanging around his neck.”
Literary Pulitzers Go To Biographies Of Washington, Lincoln, Cancer
The biography prize itself went to Ron Cherwin’s Washington: A Life, while Eric Foner’s The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the history award and the general nonfiction winner was Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.