Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Arianna Huffington a
Arianna Huffington and the death of newspapers : The New Yorker
The American newspaper has been around for approximately three hundred years. Benjamin Harris’s spirited Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick managed just one issue, in 1690, before the Massachusetts authorities closed it down. Harris had suggested a politically incorrect hard line on Indian removal and shocked local sensibilities by reporting that the King of France had been taking liberties with the Prince’s wife.
New York Stock Exchange May Be Sold - NYTimes.com
Under the terms being negotiated, the New York Stock Exchange — which began in 1792 when brokers gathered beneath a buttonwood tree in Lower Manhattan to trade five securities of the new nation — would still have a headquarters in Manhattan. But the Deutsche Börse would own as much as 60 percent of the new company, which would be incorporated in the Netherlands.
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
LACMA and Getty Trus
LACMA and Getty Trust Acquire Mapplethorpe Works and Letters
Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, via LACMA and J. Paul Getty Trust “Calla Lily” (1988), part of the Mapplethorpe collection acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Trust. (Click Image to Enlarge)
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Trust said on Monday they had jointly acquired a huge collection of the prints, negatives and letters of Robert Mapplethorpe, further strengthening California’s position as a major center for 20th-century photography.
The acquisition is the first time the two institutions have collected works of art to share, in a partnership they formed to compete more effectively against other major museums being considered by the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation as homes for the collection. The foundation is donating the majority of the more than 2,000 photographs — including Mapplethorpe silver-gelatin prints and Polaroid works — and the Getty and the county museum, with help from the David Geffen Foundation, are buying the rest.
The foundation estimated the value of the entire collection —
