Sep 24 Art Collection Could Prove Shrewd Investment for Lehman Brothers By Travis Daub Lehman Brother's extensive and diverse art collection is being auctioned off to help pay back creditors. Art world dealers suspect when the final bids are accepted for the world-renowned collection, the art could be worth $10 million. Continue reading
Sep 24 Conversation: Novelist Per Petterson, Author of ‘I Curse the River of Time’ By Molly Finnegan The bestselling Norwegian author Per Petterson became known to American readers over the last couple of years after his 2003 novel "Out Stealing Horses" was translated into English. He now has a new novel, "I Curse the River of Time". Continue reading
Sep 24 Gwen’s Take: Telling Our Stories Two women I know have recently written terrific books that could easily have never seen the light of day. By complete serendipity, each is a former colleague and friend. Isabel Wilkerson and I were both reporters for the New York… Continue reading
Sep 24 Colbert Stays in Character at Congressional Hearing on Farm Jobs As far as House Judiciary subcommittee hearings on agricultural jobs go, this one had a bit more celebrity shine. Stephen Colbert, the comedian and satirist, knew that, and hoped his presence would vault the hearings up to "CSPAN 1"… Continue reading
Sep 24 Friday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, an previously unknown painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder is discovered in Spain. Continue reading
Sep 23 Watch Author Examines Generations-Long Black ‘Defection from the Jim Crow South’ In her new book "The Warmth of Other Suns," Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and professor Isabel Wilkerson digs into the "The Great Migration" that took place from 1915 to 1970, when 6 million African-Americans left the South to go north and… Continue watching
Sep 23 Could Small Stuff Be Good Indicators the Economy is Turning Around? Question: In trying to understand how to read the signs that we might be in a more robust recovery, I hear a lot about business expansion, hiring, product development and other growth-oriented factors that would serve as key indicators. Continue reading
Sep 23 For Two Filmmakers, ‘California Is a Place’ You Haven’t Really Seen Before In the summer of 2009, with signs of the Great Recession scattered across much of California, filmmaker Drea Cooper and photographer Zackary Canepari decided it was time to work together full time to document what they were witnessing around them. Continue reading
Sep 23 Activists Uncertain About Prospects for ‘Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell’ Repeal Gay rights advocates are regrouping after the Senate on Tuesday voted down legislation that would have allowed gays to serve openly in the military, and are uncertain about the prospects for turning the vote around during a lame-duck session… Continue reading
Sep 23 Thursday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Art Institute of Chicago sues the engineering company who helped build its Modern wing. Continue reading