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Thomas Hoving (1921-2009):  Former Metropolitan Museum of Art director, art historian, and author Thomas Hoving died today at the age of 78.  Hoving, a pioneering and controversial figure in the art world who launched the era of "blockbuster" exhibitions at the Met, wrote the bestselling tell-all, Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  [The New York Times]

Gorgeous George Resurrects a Novel:   Walter Kirn's novel Up In the Air was a fly-and-die story, that is until George Clooney and breakout director Jason Reitman (Juno) gave it another chance to take flight.  [The Daily Beast]

Discovery of Hitler's Art  Playbook:  Upon closer inspection, a book retrieved at the end of WWII by a young U.S. soldier at Hitler's Berghof turns out to be a volume containing the madman's plans for an Austrian "Fuhrermuseum" and a meticulous accounting of the artifacts the Nazi's stole from European Jewish families for the project.  [Yahoo News]

Moving & shaking:  When everybody's favorite librarian, Nancy Pearl, talks holiday picks on NPR, readers listen carefully. Spooner (an Amazon Best of the Month: October Pick), When Wanderers Cease to Roam, Bubble Trouble, and other great titles for adults and kids land on our Movers & Shakers list.  

--Lauren

Comments

[Virginia Kirkus on December 10, 2009 at 03:51 PM]

Don't forget my little reviews journal.