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...Even the royal collections have come to see the necessity of modern methods. Udaipur's City Palace recently archived more than 18,000 photographs in its collection that date back to the 1850s, and in April opened them to tourists for the first time. Kumar believes that the current maharaja is all too aware that the palace's financial viability depends on making it a world-class attraction, and a museum is part of the package. The proliferation of new galleries, and the increasing profile of the art market, is forcing Indians to think about how they value...
...understand where Indian art is going, it helps to look back. The fine arts in India depended on royal patronage - by the maharajahs and nawabs of India's princely states - well into the 20th century. After independence in 1947, the country's few industrialist families became the most important collectors, but the field remained as insular as their privately held companies. Over the past 10 years, India's economic boom created a new class of affluent, salaried professionals, particularly in technology companies. "The collector base has really increased," says Himanshu Verma, a curator and art consultant in New Delhi. "There...
...Amazon can't make a deal with the publishers, it can always just become a publisher. That's where Princess Alera of Hytanica makes her royal entrance. Last year, speaking to Publishers Weekly, Bezos pooh-poohed the idea of Amazon publishing books: "I'm not sure we have any skills per se to be a content originator," he said. "Why would we be better at it? It's a well-served industry." That it may be. But as Amazon Encore demonstrates, Amazon does have one very important skill: it gathers better data on how readers buy books than anybody else...
...Michael • claim by that the King of Jordan is a "fan of Transformers" cries out for an emphatic royal denial •claim by that Obama "likes my movies" cries out for an emphatic presidential denial...
...Bible has the logic backward. In ancient times, when a man of royal blood married a foreign woman of royal blood, it wasn't on a romantic whim. It was part of foreign policy, a way to cement relations with another nation. And that cement was strengthened by paying respect to the nation's gods. Solomon's many wives didn't lead to his many gods; his politics led to both the wives and the gods...