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...Nobody ever complains about it," says Eric Ripert, chef of Le Bernardin, Zagat?s No. 3 top rated restaurant in New York City, where the average price of a dinner is $129, up 7% from last year. "The clients tell us we can raise our prices even more," he says. At the BLT Steak restaurants in New York City and Washington, chef Laurent Tourondel is serving a $92 rib-eye steak, and he's pretty sure he's holding back. "I could raise it a little bit more" without losing any diners, he says. "I don't think...
...original version of this article stated that the restaurant Le Bernardin is "Zagat?s No. 1 rated restaurant in New York City." Le Bernardin did hold the top spot in the New York City Zagat guide in 2007, but in the recently released 2008 guide Daniel has claimed the top spot...
...John Le Carre's novels, in which secret agents confound one another with twisted espionage games, may have taken inspiration from legendary, real-life Soviet master-spy Alexander Feklisov, the cold-war operative who ran some of the KGB's deadliest spies in the West. Feklisov's recruits included Julius Rosenberg, widely believed to have provided information on the Manhattan Project, and German scientist Klaus Fuchs, who had worked at the Los Alamos lab. Feklisov was pivotal in his country's acquisition of the nuclear bomb, first exploded in 1949, some five years before U.S. agents expected...
...inspired oil painting by India's Syed Haider Raza. Even in Vietnam, idyllic rural scenes coated in the country's distinctive lacquer that sold for a few hundred dollars a few years ago are now selling for 10 times that. A gouache-and-ink painting by Vietnamese post-impressionist Le Pho, whose work is part of the permanent exhibition at the Modern Art Museum in Paris, captured nearly $250,000 at a Singapore sale. Overall, leading auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's auctioned $190 million in contemporary Asian art last year, compared to $22 million just two years before...
...trade has become so frenzied in Vietnam that dozens of young painters are now employed by unscrupulous dealers to make copies of works by leading local artists. Le Thiet Cuong, for instance, paints deceptively simple rural scenes that evoke his childhood when he was evacuated to the countryside because of war. A prodigious painter, he is sometimes criticized for pumping out too much too fast. Yet part of his purported output comes courtesy of a bevy of knock-off specialists who hawk canvases adorned with his forged signature. Just down the road from a gallery that sells his real works...