Arts organizations in Massachusetts say they’re bracing to hear from “loyal givers squeezed by the economy. To prepare, they’ve been making lists of potential cuts, enacting hiring freezes, and shifting reserve funds so they’re better protected and easier to get at.”
Tag: 10.06.08
Sotheby’s Hong Kong Sale Falls Flat
Buyers shunned the priciest lots and chose cheaper paintings and sculptures at Sotheby’s Hong Kong auction, Asia’s biggest art sale since the credit crisis grew last month.
The Man Who Was Right About Almost Everything
John Stuart Mill “believed in complete equality between the sexes, not just women’s colleges and, someday, female suffrage but absolute parity; he believed in equal process for all, the end of slavery, votes for the working classes, and the right to birth control (he was arrested at seventeen for helping poor people obtain contraception), and in the common intelligence of all the races of mankind.”