By Steve Rhodes
A recent Axios newsletter item:
First look: Jon Meacham on racism, extremism
Random House has moved up publication of Jon Meacham’s The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels to May 7.
Posted on March 13, 2018
The Autobiography Of Director Jerry London (Hogan’s Heroes, Rockford Files, Happy Days, Brady Bunch, Six Million Dollar Man, Mary Tyler Moore Show)
By Samera Entertainment
As one of the most prolific directors in Hollywood, Jerry London’s career spanned over 40 years and saw him direct more than 350 episodic television shows.
London was also at the helm of over 40 Movies-of-the-Week and 11 blockbuster mini-series, including Emmy Award-winning Shogun and Ellis Island.
London directed some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, such as Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, Whoopi Goldberg and Annette Bening.
In his new book, From I Love Lucy to Shogun . . . and Beyond: Tales From the Other Side of the Camera, London and his writing partner Rhonda Collier humorously detail the story of how a scrawny kid standing in the middle of the tennis courts at Alhambra High School in the San Gabriel Valley went on to become one of the most sought-after directors in television history.
With unflinching candor and wit, their book leads the reader through the closed-door deals, absurd antics of the famous and near disasters on exotic locations and film sets all over the world.
Posted on March 7, 2018
The Scientist And The Forger: Probing A Turbulent Art World
By Presswire
Following the success of The Scientist and the Forger: Insights into the Scientific detection of Forgery in Paintings, written by Egyptian scientist and educator Jehane Ragai and published in 2015, World Scientific Publishing is releasing, a new and somewhat different, second edition in March, which deepens the reader’s journey into the intriguing underworld of the greatest art crimes to date.
Through a series of case studies, Ragai plunges the reader into the tensions and intricacies of an alternately booming and cooling international art market, highlighting in the process the plights of the expert, the collector and the auction house.
How can we determine whether it was Leonardo’s hand that created Salvador Mundi? How can we prove that a suspected Pollock is a forgery? How can Man in a Black Cravat be seemingly incontrovertibly attributed to Lucien Freud, despite this artist’s adamant refusal to recognize it as one of his own
How can we safeguard the art market for present and future generations? And can a psychological interpretation shed light on the perplexing behavior of Ann Freedman, the former president and director of the Knoedler Gallery?
Building on the first edition, these are some of the questions that Ragai uses to reveal how art historians and scientists collaborate conclusively to authenticate paintings or demonstrate that they are forgeries.
Posted on March 2, 2018