Stories tagged with Arts
Are Nobel literary judges Euro-centric?
By Ric Bohy | October 9, 2009 at 12:31pm | 0 
Readers here and abroad waited this week to see if the Nobel literature jury considered Yanks too “ignorant” and “isolated” to deserve the prize.
Larry McMurtry’s enduring passion: buying books
By Gary Jacobson | July 29, 2008 at 9:31am | 0
Larry McMurtry’s latest book, titled simply Books, is a memoir of his many decades as a book dealer. One of his favorite activities, he writes, has always been buying books. Lots of books.
Dalai Lama’s American friends keep trying
By Carol Eisenberg | March 25, 2008 at 3:06pm | 0
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are only the latest of a long list of Americans who have reached out to besieged Tibetans.
Lauder gives $131 million to the Whitney
By Laurie Bennett | March 19, 2008 at 9:36am | 0
Cosmetics magnate Leonard A. Lauder has made the biggest gift the Whitney Museum has ever received.
For Patricia Cornwell, philanthropy has its price
By A. James Memmott | February 22, 2008 at 11:48am | 0
Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell has learned that even generosity can need an explanation.
Cornwell gave $1 million donation to the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City this month.
But worried that some of her remarks about the gift might be read as demeaning police officers, Cornwell last week spent $250,000 to set the record straight.
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