by | Sep 7, 2008 | Culture Music Art
from Variety via Drudge ‘WRESTLER’ TAKES TOP HONORS AT VENICE Aronofsky film pins down festival’s Golden Lion By NICK VIVARELLI VENICE — Darren Aronofksy’s drama “The Wrestler,” starring Mickey Rourke as Randy (the Ram)...
by | Sep 6, 2008 | Culture Music Art
from the Wall Street Journal Frank Dunphy’s art-market instincts have served Damien Hirst well in the past. The artist says he owes much of his global-brand status and $1 billion personal fortune to Mr. Dunphy. As far as Mr. Dunphy is concerned, the prices for...
by | Sep 4, 2008 | Culture Music Art
from the Telegraph UK Britons may be more vulnerable to Aids due to Roman invasion Dr Faure believes the Romans introduced a disease which killed off people with a variant gene that now protects against HIV Photo: TELEVISION STILLS Researchers found that people who...
by | Sep 3, 2008 | Culture Music Art
from the New York Times Style Magazine
by | Sep 3, 2008 | Culture Music Art
from the New York Times DANCE Degas’s Ballet Students Teach the Lessons of Their Art Librado Romero/The New York Times Visitors with “The Little 14-Year-Old Dancer,” a bronze by Edgar Degas, from about 1880, at the Metropolitan Museum. The galleries have two...
by | Sep 2, 2008 | Culture Music Art
from The Guardian UK He was one of the 20th century’s greatest artists, whose hypnotic paintings grew darker and darker. Jonathan Jones travels to Texas to take in Mark Rothko’s final, misunderstood masterpiece – a haunting chapel the artist never...