The News Review:

- 2007 New York Wine Experience Photo Gallery
- Museum and Gallery Listings
- Seized Elton photo judged not indecent

2007 New York Wine Experience Photo Gallery
Wine Spectator – Wine Spectator (subscription) – Oct 26, 2007
The diversity on offer might be stunning in any other setting. But for regulars of Wine Spectator’s annual Wine Experience now in its 27th year this is simply what they’ve come to expect. The magazine’s three-day wine extravaganza held ct. 25–27 kicked off with the first of two sold-out evening Grand Tastings.

Museum and Gallery Listings
New York Times – Oct 26, 2007
A protean abstract painter with a dire drinking habit de Kooning put aside the bottle in 1980 and began a new phase one that still divides experts. But as is evident from the more than 40 monumental paintings most dating from about 1979 to 1986 between these shows he painted some indisputably magnificent pictures in his final working decade. (He did his last work in 1990; he died in 1997. ) Picture for picture the L&M Arts exhibition is stronger: it is more tightly focused with a handpicked selection of some of the best of late de Kooning… Focused on a single modern family art collection this show weaves like a DNA strand through the Met’s Chinese painting galleries. The 40 examples of painting and calligraphy belonged to the writer and scholar Lin Yutang (1895-1976) and his descendants who have divided their time between China and the West. Accumulated over years the collection has the casual logic of a household photo album with evidence of shared habits tastes and temperaments and of personal interchange between generations. ) (Cotter)THE METRPLITAN MUSEUM F ART: ‘CAXING THE SPIRITS T DANCE’ through Dec. How the Papuans practiced their beliefs on the remote Pacific island of New Guinea in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when they still had little contact with the West is the complex and fascinating story told in this exhibition of some 60 objects and 30 rare photographs of the works on site or in actual use.

Seized Elton photo judged not indecent
eitb24.com – Oct 26, 2007
However the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it isn’t an indecent image. Related newsElton John removes photo exhibition from British gallery A photograph owned by Elton John which was seized by police at a gallery as part of a child pornography probe is not an indecent image the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Friday. The photo entitled “Klara And Edda Belly-Dancing” had been removed from an exhibition at the Baltic gallery in Gateshead last month after management had sought advice before it was put on public display. The photograph is of two young girls one of whom has her legs apart. Northumbria CPS said it had told police there was insufficient evidence to justify proceedings for possession or distribution of an indecent photograph. It said it had investigated the picture by U.