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Heading for Hollywood to hone his skills, he found himself filling the archetypal role of the understudy who becomes a star. The head makeup artist on the film My Geisha wasn't available and Uemura had to step in and do Shirley MacLaine's face for the movie, transforming her Caucasian features into those of a Japanese courtesan. He soon became a favorite makeup artist among Hollywood stars, including such male celebrities as Frank Sinatra and Edward G. Robinson...
...Known as a turnaround artist, Romney later became Chief Executive Officer of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. True to his name, Romney cleaned up the scandal-ridden Organizing Committee and put on one of the most successful Olympic Games in history...
...Worlds in 1938 ... The French were persuaded to believe in an American attack on French culture. The controversy of the past weeks is purely manufactured, the handiwork of three people: the clever journalist who wrote the article, the shrewd editor who put it on the cover, and the graphic artist who brilliantly associated the widely lamented death of Marcel Marceau with, if I may draw on modern French thought, the empty signifier "French culture." John Brenkman, PROFESSOR, BARUCH COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, IN LE MONDE...
...second concern is one of artist valuations. The temptation for smaller houses is to cash in on rocketing prices by flooding the market with the work of as many artists, new or old, as the market will bear. But how many of those artists have international staying power? "Globalization has persuaded collectors that local Asian artists will become globally important," says the director of the Singapore Art Museum, Kwok Kian Chow. At the same time, the critical literature with which the long-term importance of those artists may be evaluated is, in many cases, nonexistent. "There is a need...
...real issue is how do you handle the auctions - do you put in as many works as possible, or are you more selective?" says Jasdeep Sandhu, owner of Singapore's Gajah Gallery. For art professionals, letting the market set an artist's worth is unsettling. "The reason is because if an artist crashes at auction, people lose confidence in the artist and art," Sandhu explains...