Do you have a query of your own? Email [email protected]
and it may get answered in an upcoming article.
I’ve been enthralled by this whole GameStop stock frenzy. I bought a share and intend to keep it. I think the stock certificate might make a nice artwork in and of itself, well worth the $350 I paid for it. Do you foresee any copyright or other legal problems here?
What does it say about us that our generation’s
Les Misérables moment was less about singing at the barricades and more about bros punching each other in the chest and buying stock in their favorite mall hangout? I suppose every generation gets the Jean Valjean it deserves.
The Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. Photo: Patricia J. Garcinuno/Getty Images.
Critics are blasting the Prado Museum in Madrid for acquiring a 20th-century Cubist painting which they say actually belongs in the city’s contemporary art museum, the Reina Sofia.
The Prado paid €70,000 (around $85,000) for
La Boulonnaise, a 1929 work by the Spanish painter María Blanchard, according to the Spanish outlet ABC.
But the move has riled some commentators, who point to a 1995 law dictating that any works created after 1881 belong in the collection of the Reina Sofia.
The law, which includes a list of artists born before the cutoff year who are exempt from the rule, does not list Blanchard, who was born in March 1881. (The year that separates the purviews of the two collections is that of Picasso’s birth.)
Book World: Tales of egos, ulcers and misbehavior at 60 Minutes
Susan Benkelman, The Washington Post
Feb. 19, 2021
FacebookTwitterEmail
Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes
By Ira Rosen
- - -
Television news producers operate outside the spotlight, figuring out story angles, sweating the details and persuading reluctant sources to go on camera. They also manage impossibly difficult personalities, get blamed for segments that go off the rails and generally don t get credit for things that go right.
Ira Rosen lasted 40 years in this environment, some of that time spent as a producer for the legendary Mike Wallace, who in Rosen s telling was as intimidating behind the scenes as he was on camera, bullying producers until they were literally sick. The tension of the job led other producers to develop heart disease or cancer at an early age, Rosen writes in his memoir, Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes. One producer named his ulcers Myron, Wallace s
毕加索与牛：走过的路会连线成一只 弥诺陶洛斯 |毕加索|牛 sina.com.cn - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sina.com.cn Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Tony Buzbee sleeps on Houston streets during Arctic storm, then returns to luxury hotel
Tony Buzbee sleeps on Houston streets during Arctic storm, then returns to luxury hotel
He has been staying at the Four Seasons Hotel Houston since Jan. 11 while his home in River Oaks undergoes renovation.
FacebookTwitterEmail
1of5
Houston mayoral candidate Tony Buzbee, pictured Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019, plans to fund his campaign promises by cutting costs through intensive audits and zero-based budgeting, a process in which every city function is analyzed and each dollar spent must be justified rather than simply adding new spending to existing budgets.Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less