These events – individual and group numbers; tap, ballet, or “shuffle step for Jesus” – “form their own distinct subculture. Yet they are also distinctly American, not so different, underneath the false eyelashes, from Little League games, and raising a host of issues revolving around class, gender and parents’ aspirations for their children” – issues foregrounded, if not aggravated, by the Lifetime reality series Dance Moms.
Tag: 09.03.12
Crime Novelist RJ Ellory Busted For Writing Sock-Puppet Reviews
“Ellory, who won the Theakstons Old Peculier crime novel of the year prize in 2010 for his novel A Simple Act of Violence, was exposed by the crime writer Jeremy Duns on Twitter for posting reviews on Amazon under various identities … criticising his rivals and praising his own work.”
The Internet’s Art Market Is Even More Full Of Fakes Than You Think
For instance, the head of the Giacometti Foundation says, “We counted the other day 2,005 fake Giacometti sculptures for sale [on a single Web site].” One recent statistical study “estimated that as many as 91 percent of the drawings and small sculptures sold online through eBay as the work of the artist Henry Moore were fake.”