Có thể gọi ba phiên đấu giá ngày 28 và 29-11 của nhà Christie’s tại Hong Kong là “những ngày của tranh Việt”, vì có hơn 25 tác phẩm được lên sàn.
Thế nhưng, điều đáng nói ở đây không chỉ là số lượng, chất lượng mà phần nhiều tranh của các danh họa Việt Nam giá vẫn chưa tương xứng với vị thế và tên tuổi của họ.
"Len Aldis là một người rất hiền hậu và giàu lòng nhân ái. Nhiều bạn bè của ông ấy trên thế giới đều biết ông ấy đặc biệt như thế nào đối với các trẻ em nghèo, khuyết tật và mang chất độc da cam ở Việt Nam".
Tom Buckley, a versatile reporter for The New York Times who covered the United Nations and the war in Vietnam, wrote columns about New York City and articles for the Sunday magazine, and as a television critic panned “Hill Street Blues,” died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.
Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi politician who from exile helped persuade the United States to invade Iraq in 2003, and then unsuccessfully tried to attain power as his country was nearly torn apart by sectarian violence, died on Tuesday at his home in Baghdad. He was 71.
Carol Doda, who was widely credited with triggering a nationwide topless revolution as a 26-year-old go-go dancer in 1964, died on Monday in San Francisco. She was 78.
René Girard, whose explorations of literature and myth helped establish influential theories about how people are motivated to want things, died on Nov. 4 at his home in Stanford, Calif. He was 91.
Setsuko Hara, one of Japan’s most beloved actresses, best known for her subtle portrayals of women torn between the demands of family and their own desires in “Late Spring,” “Tokyo Story” and other films directed by Yasujiro Ozu, died on Sept. 5 in Kamakura, near Tokyo. She was 95.
Douglass C. North, a Nobel laureate whose work in applying economic theory to history offered a new understanding of how societies coordinate people’s behavior, died on Monday at his home in Benzonia, Mich. He was 95.
Allen Toussaint, the versatile producer, songwriter, pianist and singer who was a fixture of New Orleans R&B, died after appearing in concert in Madrid on Monday night. He was 77.
Eldar Ryazanov, whose rueful satires puncturing the absurdities of everyday life in the Soviet Union and the Russia of the post-Gorbachev era made him one of Russia’s most popular film directors and screenwriters, died on Monday in Moscow. He was 88.