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...freedoms, Hong Kong will never translate its cultural hopes into realities that justify bold architectural monuments. Will Hong Kong celebrate its Cantonese roots, foreign influences and its status as home for millions of Overseas Chinese? Or will it instead buy "culture" franchises?importing brands like Centre Pompidou and Guggenheim to bolster its cultural cachet...
...thousands of dollars, while larger departments lost hundreds of thousands. “This is chump change,” he says. “The University bought itself a lot of ill will with this, and didn’t buy itself the ability to put up the Guggenheim...
...Italy, they called it Arte Povera, elsewhere "junk art": turning refuse - burlap sacks, globs of tar - into popular works. For artists like Alberto Burri, who began producing Arte Povera in the '50s, such trash would eventually become treasure. Museums and galleries such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York City and the Pompidou Center in Paris vied for his works for decades. In 1989, a collector shelled out $2.8 million for one of his prized Sacco (Sack) paintings called Umbria Vera. At the time of his death in 1995, Burri's most famous pieces, including the Sacks and Plastics...
...courts have always regarded recanted testimony with suspicion, in part because there are too many bad reasons for witnesses to change their minds: intimidation, bribery, misplaced sympathy for an imprisoned or condemned offender. In addition, "there is a preference for finality," says Martin Guggenheim of New York University Law School. "The notion that a verdict can't be overturned based simply on more evidence is part of the American system of justice." Says Harvard's Alan Dershowitz: "The law has a stake in more than this case. It worries about the hundreds in prison who now may be inclined...
Writing and editing more than 60 works, Mr. Creeley received numerous honors for his efforts—including a Guggenheim fellowship, Yale University’s 1999 Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, two Fulbright fellowships, and a National Book Award nomination...