“The Virginia Supreme Court said yesterday that Randolph College can’t auction off four paintings from its beloved art collection — at least not for six months. What happens after that, nobody knows.”
Tag: 11.17.07
The Literary World Sums Up Norman Mailer
In the past week, the literary world has grappled with the meaning of Mailer. “He had radical notions about everything. And whether they were correct or not was not important: They were invigorating and life-enhancing and good for others to hear.”
Picasso’s Every Moment
The first of four installments of John Richardson Picasso bio took 16 years and is 1,500 pages. “I don’t want to sound the knell of doom, but one of the things that gives this biography its authority – that Richardson is old enough to have known Picasso over a long period – also begins to give the reader concerns for its completion.”
How A Rare Turner Came To Market
Art historians were stunned when a member of the Vanderbilt family approached Sotheby’s a few months ago instructing the firm to put a JMW Turner on the market. “Bamborough Castle, as Turner called it using the spelling of the 1830s, had not been seen in public since 1889.”