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Fake or Fortune?The Winslow Homer in the trash, the fakes at the Courtlaud, and other art detective tales.

The Binge
Jessica Zafra

BLINDING sums of money are being made in the Philippine art boom. Art is the “It Bag” of the moment: anyone with the funds can snag a Birkin, but there are only so many masterworks to go around. Of course where there are big bucks, there are shady characters. The gap between supply and demand has been filled by entrepreneurs who miraculously produce works by major artists — pieces that were previously unknown, or presumed missing or destroyed. Surely their powers are supernatural, for they can turn up new work by long-dead painters. (If a forger claims to have been possessed by the spirit of a dead artist at the time he painted the piece, should it be considered authentic?)

Para laging good vibes

Ads & Ends
Nanette Franco-Diyco

I MUST CONFESS that my tolerance for even the most common pain is zero.

Your Weekend Guide (June 24, 2016)

EXHIBITS

Marc Gaba’s Property of Space is on view at the Artery Art Space until July 9. The artist’s multimedia exhibit dramatizes the tensions that create space in formation of private property. Mr. Gaba, a Palanca award-winning poet, has presented 12 solo shows since 2008. Artery Art Space is located at 102 P. Tuazon Blvd., Cubao, Quezon City. For inquiries, e-mail arteryartspace@gmail.com.

What to see this week

1 film to see on the week of June 24-July 1, 2016

Go With Me 
(aka Blackway)

Go With Me

When a young woman, Lillian (Julia Stiles), returns to her hometown — a Pacific Northwest logging community — after her mother’s death, she finds herself stalked by Blackway (Ray Liotta), a crazed ex-cop turned violent crime lord. Advised by the local sherrif to leave town, she instead allies herself with a retired logger (Anthony Hopkins), who carries his own beef against Blackway, and a young, introverted friend (Alexander Ludwig). The threesome set out for justice and revenge against the sociopathic Blackway. “People keep suggesting to Lillian that she just move away and never come back, which seems like a fine idea. If only Blackway — and ‘Blackway’ — would do the same,” writes the Seattle Times’ unimpressed Moira MacDonald.

MTRCB Rating: R-13

The miracle of Dreyer’s crib

By Noel Vera

DVD Review

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Directed by Preston Sturges

Ordet
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer

France’s new ‘Disneyland of wine’ sets heads spinning

PARIS — It has already been dubbed an “adult Disneyland” and “the amusement park of our dreams” by US college students.

Simpático

Getting The Edge In Professional Selling
Terrence A. Hockenhull

OVER THE LAST two months, I have bought two wristwatches from a well-known Internet site.

The cost to end poverty

Poverty

Mining stock bleed

Stocks of listed miners on June 21 succumbed to news that President-elect Rodrigo R. Duterte offered the post to Regina Paz “Gina” L. Lopez, trustee of the Lopez Group Foundation, Inc. and chairman of the ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation, Inc., the corporate social responsibility arm of media giant ABS-CBN Corp. that lists a “No to Mining Campaign” among its key advocacies. Read the full story.

Real wages stagnant even as jobs, productivity grow

Relaxed labor laws, improved worker skills, and greater ease of doing business would open up high quality and well-paying jobs for Filipinos in order to alleviate poverty, the World Bank said in a new report.

In a report titled “Labor Market Review: Employment and Poverty in the Philippines,” the multilateral lender pointed out the gnawing problem of underemployment in the country, with a big chunk of Filipinos remaining poor despite holding jobs. Read the full story.

Aquino government satisfaction slips

PUBLIC SATISFACTION with the performance of outgoing President Benigno S.C. Aquino III’s administration dipped — though it remained “good” — as it entered its last three months in office, according to the latest Social Weather Stations survey that showed a big drop in Metro Manila as well as in two of three tracked socioeconomic classes. Read the full story.

Tourism’s economic contribution marks new milestone in 2015

Philippine tourism became more fun in 2015, as its contribution to the economy breached a trillion pesos to hit its highest in the final full year of the Aquino administration. Read the full story