Arts November 23, 2015 Andy Warhol portrait of Farrah Fawcett worth $12 million, appraiser says An Andy Warhol portrait of Farrah Fawcett currently held by actor Ryan O'Neal is worth an estimated $12 million, an appraiser told a jury Friday.
Arts July 31, 2015 Hollywood loves Obama, but does Obama love it back? Hollywood loves Barack Obama and it has expressed this this in every way it knows how, from celebrity endorsements and campaign appearances to huge donations. In the 2012 presidential race, show biz folks gave Obama more than six million dollars, five times as much as Romney got. It has even been announced that a biopic of Obama’s first date with Michelle—dinner and a Spike Lee movie--is on the way. Without spoiling the plot I can reveal that the it has a happy ending.
Classical May 7, 2015 Met Opera’s ‘Klinghoffer’: The musical bastardization of a cold-blooded terrorist murder New York’s Metropolitan Opera premiered “The Death of Klinghoffer” Monday night. The Washington Post describes the opera as “based on the brutal murder in 1985 of Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly Jewish tourist shot by Palestinian terrorists and pushed into the sea from the deck of the cruise ship Achille Lauro.”
Europe January 13, 2015 Turkey museum shuts down Juan Miro exhibit citing fakes A Turkish art gallery says it has closed down an exhibition in Istanbul of the works of Joan Miro after directors of the Spanish surrealist painter's estate said some of the pieces were fakes.
Europe January 8, 2015 Monet painting found in German collector's suitcase The task force looking into the late German collector Cornelius Gurlitt's long-hidden art trove says officials have found a landscape by Claude Monet in a suitcase that he took to a hospital.