"Louvre President and Director Jean-Luc Martinez said that he hopes to secure a loan of the most expensive artwork ever sold for a blockbuster Leonardo show the museum is planning to mark the 30th anniversary of its 'Grand Louvre' renovation and expansion in late 2018."
"To minimise its risk, the auction house found a third party willing to 'guarantee' the work. In other words, the painting was pre-sold to an undisclosed buyer for an undisclosed sum." That third party was, according to one rumor, the owners of another work on sale at the same auction, Warhol's Sixty Last Suppers - which was, in turn, guaranteed by Dmitry Rybolovlev, seller of Salvator Mundi. Hence the "double-bind."
"Gomer was a recognizable kind of American hero: a good-hearted, gentle, unsophisticated sort (not unlike Forrest Gump of a later era) who encounters a harder, more cynical modern world - in this case embodied by Southern California - and helps redeem it. ... To fans who knew him only as Gomer, his full-throated, almost operatic baritone was surprisingly striking, if strangely incongruous."
Says the citation for Christopher Bollen's The Destroyers, "The judges felt that there are parts in the book where Bollen goes overboard in his attempts to describe the familiar in new terms, leading occasionally to confusion. In the line quoted ... they were left unsure as to how many testicles the character in question has."
Jason Blake, chief theatre critic for the Herald since 2010, and his wife Elissa, a freelance arts journalist for that paper and its Sunday tabloid, The Sun-Herald, opened the Sydney-focused website Audrey Journal in November to help make up for reduced arts coverage in the print newspapers. Now the SMH has told the Blakes that their new venture, which is supported financially by several Sydney arts institutions, is a conflict of interest.
Teatro Oficina, part of the tropicalismo movement of the 1960s and '70s and notorious for performances filled with nudity and onstage drug consumption, is headquartered in a unique, landmarked São Paulo building by architect Lina Bo Bardi with a huge window and retractable ceiling. Mogul and TV personality Silvio Santos owns the land around Teatro Oficina and wants to build three skyscrapers which would block the theatre's light, and the country's artistic community is rallying to fight Santos's plan.
Recent Listening: Urban Fado
Mary Ann McSweeney, Urban Fado (McSweeney)
In Lisbon, New York, Montreal, Paris, and Tokyo - among other places around the world - musicians are melding jazz and Fado. Fado’s origins in Portugal extend to at least ... read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2017-11-30
The board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences “left intact Rule Two, the one that established that a film” — in...
