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Christopher Burge, right, taking a bid at Christie's November auction in New York, where Elsworth Kelly's painting sold for $1.65 million, below its estimate.
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The financial crisis that managements are endeavouring to forestall by reducing overheads is the inevitable consequence of the metamorphosis undergone by auction houses over the last four decades.
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British writer John Mortimer, creator of the curmudgeonly criminal lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey, has died at 85, his publisher said Friday.
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The movie may not be an authorized biography of Biggie S,malls, but it is if anything less critical, less ambivalent, than some of Biggie's own semi-autobiographical lyrics.
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A British judge has sentenced former Culture Club frontman Boy George to 15 months in jail after he was convicted of falsely imprisoning a male escort.
BOOK REVIEWS
By ALAN BRINKLEY
'A Long Time Coming,' 'The Plan,' 'Obamanomics' and 'Obama's Challenge' all offer a portrait of how liberals have come prospectively to envision the Obama presidency as a transformative moment in American history.
By STEPHEN POLLARD
Claire Berlinki's book 'There Is No Alternative' is part biography, part travelogue, part Economics 101 study guide and part history.
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By CHRISTOPHER DE BELLAIGUE
In "Land of Marvels" — and particularly in this final scene — Unsworth succeeds in summoning the demons and the angels of Iraq's present and past. Not bad for a volume you could read in an afternoon.
By LISA FUGARD
"The Piano Teacher" is laced with intrigue concerning a hoard of Chinese artifacts that went missing during the war, but readers will be more enthralled by Lee's depiction of the relationships between enigmatic Englishman, Will Truesdale and his two lovers.
By KATHRYN HARRISON
This is the alchemy of great fiction: the fantastic dream that's created in "Lark and Termite" is one the reader enters without ever looking back.
By SYLVIA BROWNRIGG
What makes up a person's cultural identity? Is it intrinsic, a matter of blood and genealogy, or is it in the eye of the beholder, be that beholder a parent or a partner or the state? In the Irish writer Hugo Hamilton's new novel, a man struggles to establish the precise contours of his being.
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Artist Andrew Wyeth, who portrayed the hidden melancholy of the people and landscapes of Pennsylvania's Brandywine Valley and coastal Maine in works such as "Christina's World," died early Friday. He was 91.
By TARA MULHOLLAND
With a worsening economic climate and freezing weather that makes lingering in the Centquatre's inner hall unappealing, how is Paris's controversial new arts center faring?
OBITUARIES
By CLAIRE DEDERER AND BRUCE WEBER
Montalban, perhaps best known for his role on "Fantasy Island," embodied stereotypes, fought them and transcended them in his years in show business.
By STEPHEN CASTLE
A controversial artwork, supposed to have been produced by artists from each of the European Union's 27 member states, was in fact created by one person, the Czech deputy prime minister said Tuesday.
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By ALISON LEIGH COWAN
A food and wine expert said that she was paid to write a cookbook that was published listing Ruth Madoff as a co-author.
By CAROL KINO
The critic, art historian and artist was known for the colorful public sculptures she created around the world with her husband, the artist Claes Oldenburg.
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The sociologist Dalton Conley looks at how Americans can only be "convinced that they're in the right place, doing the right thing, at the right time, when they're on their way to the next destination." In her novel Kim Barnes focuses on the Easterner gone West. seeking rebirth in a new land.
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
The actor Akshay Kumar, India's superstar Everyman, is coming to America in "Chandni Chowk to China."
AP
Hortense Calisher, a prize-winning writer and former president of PEN known for her dense, unskimmable prose in such works of fiction as "False Entry" and "In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks," has died. She was 97.
By VICTORIA BURNETT
The project allows users of Google Earth to zoom in on high-resolution images of the works, scouring the canvas for details that would barely be visible to a museum visitor standing behind a velvet cordon.
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By EDWARD WYATT
The Screen Actors Guild appeared determined to go ahead with a strike authorization vote after a group of board members failed in an attempt to oust the union's lead contract negotiator.
By BRIAN STELTER
MSNBC will simulcast its coverage in movie theaters and Starbucks stores, and other screenings are being planned across the United States.
By JAN STUART
The German director Doris Dörrie is a practicing Buddhist, an identity that increasingly informs the geographical and philosophical landscapes of her films.
By KAREN ROSENBERG
![The writer Eudora Welty took photographs in rural Mississippi and Manhattan in the early 1930s, such as "Untitled" [Union Square, New York], circa 1935.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090116161312im_/http://img.iht.com/images/2009/01/13/13eudora75.jpg)
Welty's early camerawork, now on view at the Museum of the City of New York, is a compelling record of Depression-era life.
By APRIL DEMBOSKY
SCHROEDER'S (AND SCHULZ'S) MUSE Musicologists and art curators have learned that there was much more than a punch line to Charles Schulz's invocation of Beethoven's music in his "Peanuts" strips.
By DAVID CARR
The Hollywood foreign press lived up to its name on Sunday and paid frantic tribute to the compelling idiosyncrasies of far-flung independent cinema.
By MATT WOLF
The Broadway star Mandy Patinkin is in concert at the Duke of York's Theatre; Joe Orton's "Loot" has been revived at the Tricycle Theatre, and Joe DiPietro's "F***ing Men" is playing at the King's Head.
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- OBITUARY: Harold Pinter, playwright of the pause, dies at 78
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