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‘Queen of Italian cinema’ Monica Vitti dies at age 90
ROME — Monica Vitti, the adaptable movie star of Michelangelo Antonioni’s “L’Avventura” and other Italian alienation films of the 1960s, and afterwards a primary comedian actress, has died. She was 90. Her dying was introduced Wednesday on Twitter by a former lifestyle minister, Walter Veltroni, who reported he had been questioned to converse her demise by her husband, the photographer Roberto Russo. “Goodbye to the queen of Italian cinema,” the current lifestyle minister, Dario Franceschini, wrote in a statement. Vitti had been out of the community spotlight for years, dwelling quietly in Rome with her husband. She reportedly suffered from a sort of dementia. In her glamour times in the…
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Sony Music Chairman Rob Stringer Receives CBE Honors From Queen
Photo Credit history: Josh Cheuse The Queen of England has honored Sony Songs Chairman Rob Stringer with a CBE ranking. The Commander of the Buy of the British Empire (CBE) position was awarded for Stringer’s services to the songs industry and his philanthropic endeavors. The award is handed out every yr on New Year’s Working day and is amongst the best titles that can be bestowed upon British citizens. “Rob Stringer is identified for an exceptional and sustained contribution to the British audio organization as very well as charity will cause and tackling discrimination,” the Uk government’s announcement reads. “A transformational determine in the British tunes enterprise for around 4…
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The Recent Sale of Amy Sherald’s ‘Welfare Queen’ Symbolizes the Urgent Need for Resale Royalties and Economic Equity for Artists
This past Wednesday, November 17, a regal portrait by the celebrated artist Amy Sherald sold for $3.9 million, double its $1.2 million-to-$1.8 million estimate, in the 20th-century and contemporary evening sale at Phillips New York. Welfare Queen (2012), listed in the catalogue as hailing from “a private East Coast collector,” was consigned by Dr. Imani Perry, the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. In an essay for Phillips, Professor Perry recalled acquiring the work from the artist, and credited Sherald’s generosity in allowing her to use a payment plan to purchase the piece: I was hardly in a position to begin collecting art. My budget was tight, my…
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