“Mina Gregori, 90, president of the Roberto Longhi foundation of art history studies in Florence and author of several books on the baroque painter, said she was 100% sure she had found the original Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy.”
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Rwanda Suspends BBC Broadcasts After Documentary About 1994 Genocide Airs
“The programme also included interviews with former aides of RPF leader President Paul Kagame, accusing him of plotting to shoot down the presidential plane – the act seen as triggering the slaughter.
Writers Shouldn’t Respond To Bad Reviews, But They Also Shouldn’t Have To ‘Engage’ With Readers
“We feel a social and professional pressure to respond to every tweet with our name on it, even if just to be nice, and it’s that very niceness that leads us down this road to bat-guano craziness.”
Paul McCarthy Hits Back At Parisian Vandals With Chocolate, Um, Trees
“Through a succession of dimly lit rooms, the tunnel takes you into the recesses of a sinister chocolate production line turned mad house. Over the rows of chocolate sex toys that fill endless metal shelves, exceptionally large chocolate gnomes are displayed partly lifted from their man-sized molds.”
Some Progress In Atlanta Symphony Talks (Small)
“Although the two sides appear to be at an impasse on the size of the orchestra, the musicians claim to have made “significant progress” on health care. The players have suggested a health-care plan that will save the WAC about 25 percent — more than $250,000 a year — over the plan that management canceled on Oct. 1.”
NBCUniversal Settles Intern Lawsuit For $64 Million
NBCUniversal and a group of former interns have agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit contending the interns should have been paid for their work.
Master Forger’s Work Sells For £50,000 In Auction
“We had over 255 online bidders, not for each painting but during the course of the collection of his. There were between 50 and 80 people in the auction room at any one time.”
Frank Gehry Gives Journalist The Finder At A Press Conference
“A press conference in Oviedo on Thursday got off to a bad start when a journalist asked whether Gehry’s own architecture was just about spectacle.”
Is Transrealism The First Major Lit Genre Of The 21st Century?
“This proliferation of the fantastic in contemporary fiction has at times been described as the “mainstreaming of science fiction”. But sci-fi continues on much as it ever has, producing various escapist fantasies for readers who want time out from reality. And of course there’s no shortage of purely realist novels populating Booker prize lists and elsewhere.”
Huge Increase In Video-On-Demand Production
Streaming video on demand spending “already exceeded syndication dollars spent by broadcast stations last year; it will more than double the $3.3 billion projected for 2015. SVOD, broadcast stations and cable combined will bless the studios with $29.5 billion next year.”