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...will also highlight an amazing story of cultural survival, with traditional lifestyles often being maintained on the earnings from art production. "Aboriginal art has been the one shining light that people have been able to refer to when they talk about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievements," says Paul Sweeney, manager of Papunya Tula Artists, the oldest and most successful of the desert art centers, "and it's getting knocked about a bit at the moment." Industry observers blame a small number of rogue traders working outside the art-center system; others cite skyrocketing auction prices; some accuse the artists...
...bush when I was there," he recalls. While that lack of Western contact brought a remarkably fresh quality to their painting, it didn't equip them well for the art market. "You've got all sorts of traditional beliefs and values basically slamming head-on into Western economics," Sweeney observes. In 1993, when Klingender set up the contemporary art department at Sotheby's in Melbourne, he introduced Aboriginal work into their regular auctions for the first time; soon they comprised two-thirds of his sales: "It made me realize that here was a field that could stand alone." Ten years...
They were, the showman in 42nd Street proclaimed, "the most glorious words in the English language: musical comedy!" But for a couple of decades, the people who made Broadway-style musicals forgot about the comedy and went super-serious, telling song-stories about the murderous (Sweeney Todd), the morose (The Phantom of the Opera) and the miserable (Les Miz and dozens more). The Great White Way never sounded so gloomy...
...disappointing season. Facing league foe New Jersey Tech (NJIT) on Senior Day, the Harvard men’s volleyball team failed to contain the Highlanders’ potent offense, losing 3-0 (30-21, 30-24, 30-22) Saturday afternoon at the Malkin Athletic Center. After capturing the Sweeney Division title last year, the Crimson came into 2006 favored to win the newly transformed Hay Division. But an injury-plagued start and a poor finish put Harvard out of contention. Nothing characterized the Crimson’s fall from grace more than its performance against NJIT this season. Saturday?...
...called end-time began last October, after ABC agreed to put Lost and Desperate Housewives on Apple's iTunes store as $1.99 downloads, giving viewers their first taste of (legal) Internet access to hit shows. "Every new-technology company had been courting us," recalls Disney-ABC TV president Anne Sweeney. "It's one thing to discuss possibilities, but when we saw the video iPod and iTunes store, the consumer experience was so vibrant, it convinced us that this was the right technology." Within a month, CBS and NBC made plans to offer some of their top shows as 99¢ video...