Jean-Michel Basquiat occupies star billing on the auction block in New York this season, catapulting the artist into the rostrum of 20th century greats nearly three decades after his death. Riding high on last year’s $57 million auction record set when a Japanese billionaire snapped up a self-portrait, at least 14 works by the US … Read more
By Martin Luther Akor Disclaimer: This piece is not meant to judge for judge not, that ye be not judged and with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again (Matt. 7:1-2). Take thee also notice that people who prophesy are in … Read more
Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe is to be credited by Oxford University Press as Shakespeare’s co-writer on three of the Bard’s plays. Marlowe has long been suspected in some quarters of having a hand in some of Shakespeare’s works. The two dramatists will now jointly appear on the title pages for the Henry VI plays in … Read more