Terrible, terrible news from the Guardian. Michael Jackson has been at work with some British celebrity I've never heard of, David Gest, on an album whose lyrics will be the poetry of Robert Burns, Scotland's most celebrated versifier. "He [Gest] explained that he and Jackson were originally planning to do a musical about Burns's life, … Continue reading Gan Aft Agley
Author: Anders
Behind the Canvas
Peter Plagens, artist and art critic for Newsweek magazine, is writing a novel that promises to give us all a glimpse of the sordid underbelly of the art world. The first chapter is up and readable; the subsequent 23 installments will come once a week. You can read Plagens' novel at artnet.com.--David E
Who Wins, Exactly?
Still smarting from the shakeup in Minneapolis's library system? It could be worse. Residents of Treasure Island, Florida, will have to pay for their library cards--as much as $100 each--if the city commission has its way. Commissioners recently voted to withdraw from a larger library system, to which the town currently pays $107,132 a year. … Continue reading Who Wins, Exactly?
Musings from Magers and Quinn 