How Art Can Be Good

Paul Graham's reflections on art + other viewpoints @ http://www.paulgraham.com/goodart.html

Due Diligence: Arkady Gaidamak Is Pro-Government

Chaim Even-Zohar profiles Arkady Gaidamak, his business interests in Russia and Africa + other viewpoints @ http://www.idexonline.com/portal_FullEditorial.asp?TextSearch=&KeyMatch=0&id=24723

Art 2008

9th International Art Conference on Non-destructive Investigation and Analysis will focus on items of cultural heritage, but will have implications for gem testing.

Useful link:
www.isas.co.il/art2008

Can You Identify The Stone?

A triplet is composed of poor quality, or colorless material used for crown and pavilion cemented at the girdle with a layer of colored cement. The triplet described is likely to be: emerald; jadeite; corundum; red tourmaline

Greatest Film Directors

31. Tim Burton

32. James Cameron

33. Jonathan Demme

34. Brian De Palma

35. Clint Eastwood

Greatest Films

The films I like:

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

How the West Was Won (1962)

The Last Hurrah (1958)

Inherit the Wind (1960)

Looking At Art

Arthur C. Danto writes about Saul Steinberg's artistic and philosophical interpretation of drawings + other viewpoints @ http://artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2162

Dubai Launches World’s First Fully Automated Color Grading Reports

Chaim Even-Zohar writes about Dubai’s International Diamond Laboratories (IDL) – the world’s only lab where the color grade is established totally by a state-of-the-art spectrograph, or, more precisely, the IDL Color Meter + new B2B concepts for traders + other viewpoints @ http://www.idexonline.com/portal_FullEditorial.asp