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London art market woos ‘uber-collectors’ to buoy sales

Source: Lebanon Daily Star

LONDON: Auctioneers are pinning their hopes on “uber-collectors” to help London summer art sales top last year’s $1 billion total when the series kicks off later this month. Estimates from Christie’s, Sotheby’s and sm ...
Full article at: Lebanon Daily Star More like this Jun 10 2013, 7:39pm CDT

What Happened to Just Quitting?

Source: Town Hall

Edward Snowden is not a hero. He's a 29-year-old former security guard at the National Security Agency who ended up knowing way too much about what goes on at the NSA, CIA and the rest of the intelligence community. In case you missed it ...
Full article at: Town Hall More like this Jun 10 2013, 10:36am CDT

Audrey Niffenegger Art: 'Awake in the Dream World' Presents Surreal Portraits Of Mystical Women (PHOTOS)

Source: The Huffington Post

"The compulsion when I'm writing has often been: 'Let's kill them all!' writes Audrey Niffenegger , author of "The Time Traveler's Wife," in a piece for the Guardian. "I can make my characters' lives really quite miserable. I don't ...
Full article at: The Huffington Post More like this Jun 9 2013, 8:59am CDT

London art market woos "uber-collectors" to buoy summer sales

Source: Yahoo News: Business

By Paul Casciato LONDON (Reuters) - Auctioneers are pinning their hopes on "uber-collectors" to help London summer art sales top last year's $1 billion (642 million pounds) total when the series kicks off later this month. Estimate ...
Full article at: Yahoo News: Business More like this Jun 8 2013, 10:14am CDT

Calendar: Coming Events in Italy and Oslo

Source: New York Times Travel

Chad Batka for The New York Times Lucca Music Festival, Italy Every summer, thousands of revelers converge on the Piazza Napoleone in Lucca, a medieval Tuscan town, to hear music that’s decidedly modern. The rock ...
Full article at: New York Times Travel More like this Jun 7 2013, 12:20pm CDT

The last waltz

Source: The Age

Soothing tunes … members of the Threshhold Choir sing for Elaine Mason, a patient at a Leichhardt aged care facility. Photo: Steven Siewert Wesly McLeod, 39, was dying of a brain tumour. But while his sister, Colleen Kennedy ...
Full article at: The Age More like this Jun 7 2013, 12:05pm CDT

Edvard Munch collection to be housed in huge glass museum

Source: Guardian Unlimited

A spectacular 12,00sq ft (1,100sq metre) glass covered museum to house the world's largest collection of Edvard Munch works has been given the go-ahead for the Oslo waterfront in Norway – a decision made, f ...
Full article at: Guardian Unlimited More like this Jun 6 2013, 9:48am CDT

New Munch Museum Gets Greenlight in Oslo

Source: Art Observed

Plans have been set in place to move Oslo’s Edvard Munch museum to the city’s waterfront, which had previously been delayed for several years to due location and funding considerations. The new, glass-lined building, titled Lambda, is project ...
Full article at: Art Observed More like this Jun 5 2013, 12:18pm CDT

Transient States: On Mary Cassatt

Source: The Nation

In her printmaking the artist searched for a constantly elusive vision. Mary Cassatt could have been a character in a Henry James novel: the spirited young American woman who goes to Europe seeking her destiny. ...
Full article at: The Nation More like this Jun 4 2013, 7:42pm CDT

What Do You Focus on When Everything Is Falling Apart? (Motivational Articles)

Source: GoSwim

Training takes its toll on technique. While THAT sounds like a headline from the National Enquirer, it's a typical occurrence during most age-group swim practices. Very often in practice, technique is sacrificed for survival and the human instinct of ...
Full article at: GoSwim More like this Jun 3 2013, 10:19am CDT