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...Impressionism, Surrealism and other major -isms, has been supplanted, at least in commercial terms, by New York City and London. Auction houses in France today account for only about 8% of all public sales of contemporary art, calculates Alain Quemin, a researcher at France's University of Marne-La-Vallée, compared with 50% in the U.S. and 30% in Britain. In an annual calculation by the German magazine Capital, the U.S. and Germany each have four of the world's 10 most widely exposed artists; France has none. An ArtPrice study of the 2006 contemporary-art market found...
Facebook is, in Silicon Vall--ese, a "social network": a website for keeping track of your friends and sending them messages and sharing photos and doing all those other things that a good little Web 2.0 company is supposed to help you do. It was started by Harvard students in 2004 as a tool for meeting-- or at least discreetly ogling--other Harvard students, and it still has a reputation as a hangout for teenagers and the teenaged-at-heart. Which is ironic because Facebook is really about making the Web grow...
...hasn't. Last weekend, Euro Disney celebrated its first park's 10th anniversary with the launch of a second one, the ?610 million Disney Studios. The expansion of the resort complex at Marne-la- Vallée, 30 km east of Paris, is a sign that the company has found not only stability as Europe's top tourist attraction but also renewed confidence in its long-term outlook...
...James R. Vall of the MBTA police said that the alleged victim--identified by The Boston Globe as Robert Jundzil, 17, of Somerville--was wounded in the chest...
...Vall said last night that he thinks Jundzil has been released from the hospital...