The stock market’s booming, the economy’s good. Discretionary art sellers wonder if now’s a good time to sell. Next week some $4 million-worth of art goes up for sale in New York’s fall art auctions. Observers ponder return of ’80s art boom. New York Times
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“MONSTROUSLY LONG, ECCENTRICALLY STRUCTURED AND HIGHLY SELF-INDULGENT”
Nonetheless, Simon Schama’s new Rembrandt biography is “fascinating and admirable.” – London Telegraph
HARDWARE’S HOT
Bonnie Burnard has won the Giller, Canada’s top literary prize with her story of a hardware store owner and his family. – CBC
ALSO: Jean Echenoz wins France’s top literary prize – CBC 11/4/99
TV OPERA THAT ROCKS
Michael Rouse’s piece fuses opera, rock and television, making for some “spectacular fluidity” – Los Angeles Times