The launch of the new Harry Potter last week broke all publishing records. “To help keep stores supplied, Scholastic announced last Tuesday that it was going back for a third printing of 800,000 copies, which will bring the in-print figure up to 9.3 million copies.”
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Why Overpay For The Old Stuff?
Art forgery is usually a dangerous business, but Christophe Petyt has turned it into a wildly profitable business. “At 32, he is the world’s leading dealer in fake masterpieces, a man whose activities provoke both admiration and exasperation in the higher levels of the art world. Name the painting and for as little as £1,000 he will deliver you a copy so perfect that even the original artist would struggle to tell the difference.”
Who Says Farmers Don’t Know Art?
Back in the 1970s, an Australian farm-implement and hardware company needed something to put on the walls of its headquarters, and began to make a project of acquiring museum-quality art. The company now owns better than 600 works, and last year, it mounted an exhibition to allow the public a glimpse of what the company’s execs see every day. “National interest was so great when the exhibition was originally limited to the Art Gallery of Western Australia last year that it was decided to tour it nationally. The paintings will be on the road for the next 2 years, visiting all states.”
Restored Tiepolo To Be Shown In Melbourne
“It sounds like a marriage made in heaven – one of the world’s greatest paintings housed in one of the world’s great art galleries. By the end of the year, the marriage will be consummated. The celebrations will be held in Melbourne at the opening of the $160 million renovation of the National Gallery of Victoria’s St Kilda Road headquarters. The painting, Tiepolo’s Banquet of Cleopatra, will have pride of place. The freshly restored work will hang at the end of one of the new, high-ceilinged galleries that have been installed in the former open courtyards.”