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Top Hollywood agent Cowan dies
BBC News
Saturday, May 17, 2008 (USA)
Hollywood agent Warren Cowan, who represented stars such as Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant and Elizabeth Taylor, has died aged 87.

Publishing Scotland
The Scotsman
Saturday, May 17, 2008 (United Kingdom)
Recent articles and letters in The Scotsman have suggested that funding for Publishing Scotland, the development network and trade organisation for the sector, has been allocated by the Scottish Arts Council in place of grants to publishers and, consequently, to writers. This is an entirely wrong implication. The budgetary decisions relate to different financial years and come from completely different budgets.

National Gallery drops Renaissance painting, splitting it in two
The Art Newspaper
Saturday, May 17, 2008 (United Kingdom)
A 500-year-old panel painting by Domenico Beccafumi of Marcia was broken in half, in one of the most serious handling accidents known to have occurred in a UK museum in living memory. This happened during deinstallation of the “Renaissance Siena” exhibition, which closed on 13 January. Gallery director Dr Nicholas Penny, who took over in February, admitted that the accident was “extremely serious”.

The final chapter?
The Economist
Saturday, May 17, 2008 (USA)
EVERY year, across Spain, book-club salesmen knock on the doors of thousands of households. Those who fall for the pitch are then visited 21 times a year by agents from Circulo de Lectores, who bring catalogues of titles, take orders and deliver books. The club is owned by Bertelsmann, a German media firm, which dominates the market and earns revenues of more than €2 billion ($3.1 billion) from clubs in 21 countries. Many are largely unaltered since the 1970s, but that is about to change. Bertelsmann is selling its American clubs and has put the rest under strategic review. Book clubs are in for a radical overhaul at the very least—and some people think they are headed for extinction.

2008-09 Federal Budget: What Peter Garrett had to say
Arts Hub
Friday, May 16, 2008 (Australia)
Find out how the arts fared in this year's federal budget. Peter Garrett seemed excited and from Creative Australia, to resale royalty rights, to securing Australia's screen industry - all the buzz phrases seem to have been ticked. What do you think?

The Australian Society of Authors Budget response
Arts Hub
Friday, May 16, 2008 (Australia)
The Australian Society of Authors admits to mixed feelings with regard to the Budget announcement earlier this week.

NAVA welcomes $1.5 million for resale royalty scheme
Arts Hub
Friday, May 16, 2008 (Australia)
National Association for Visual Artists (NAVA)’s Tamara Winikoff has welcomed the allocation of $1.5 million over three years for the establishment of a resale royalty scheme for Australian visual artists.

Where's the $48.1 million ask Friends of the ABC
Arts Hub
Friday, May 16, 2008 (Australia)
The May Federal Budget contained no funding increase for the national broadcaster, which will slip further behind as the result of the failure of its funding to keep up with increased costs, says Friends of the ABC.

Barker and Coleman-Wright honoured by alma mater
Arts Hub
Thursday, May 15, 2008 (Australia)
The University of Melbourne’s Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) today awarded opera singers Cheryl Barker and Peter Coleman-Wright with Honorary Doctorates of Visual and Performing Arts.

Bacon painting sets new record
BBC News
Thursday, May 15, 2008 (USA)
A Francis Bacon masterpiece has broken the artist's record at auction after selling for $86.3m (£43m) in New York.

Stars out for Cannes first night
BBC News
Thursday, May 15, 2008 (France)
Cate Blanchett, Sean Penn and a host of stars have graced the red carpet as the Cannes Film Festival opened with a gala screening of dark drama Blindness.

Russian capital gets new gallery in Melnikov bus depot
The Art Newspaper
Thursday, May 15, 2008 (Russia)
A 1927 bus garage in Moscow designed by the Constructivist architect Konstantin Melnikov is to be transformed into a gallery for contemporary art and culture. The project is the brainchild of Daria “Dasha” Zhukova, 26, whose partner is the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.

Poland gets its first contemporary collection
The Art Newspaper
Thursday, May 15, 2008 (Poland)
The National Museum in Krakow is scheduled to open a new department of contemporary Western art this month—the first devoted to a collection of this kind in Poland, according to the institution. Fifty works, loaned by the Cologne-based, Polish-born art dealer Rafael Jablonka, will go on public view on 29 May.