NY Arts + Art Fairs International: The Daily NewsletterWednesday, January 2
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International Top NewsTrekkie Goes to Court
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Star Trek fan who paid $6,000 for a poker visor that was said to have been worn by the character Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation claims in a lawsuit against Christie’s that the prop is fake. Ted Moustakis said he took the visor, which he purchased at an auction of CBS Paramount props in 2006, to a convention in August to have it autographed by Brent Spiner, the actor who played Data, and Spiner said it was a fake, and that he had sold the actual prop himself. (Artinfo, January 1, 2008) Read more >> Rediscovering Marion Mahony
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women are underrepresented in the architecture profession in 2008, a century ago they were hardly represented at all. Which makes Marion Mahony, the first woman to obtain an architecture license in Illinois, seem all the more remarkable. By 1908, she had been working for Frank Lloyd Wright for a decade. (Fred A. Bernstein for the New York Times, January 1, 2008) Read more >>
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January 2, 2008
Date posted: January 2, 2008
Author: jolanta
