THE FEED: FEB 10TH

What we're reading:

Sotheby's accused
(Telegraph): The auction house is charged with forging a document to hide their damage to a painting

Russia's secret architecture
(Guardian): Jonathan Glancey on the crazy stories behind some of Russia's strangest buildings

State arts agencies threatened with extinction
(Miller McCune): The agencies provide needed funding to nonprofit art institutions, and are in danger

Today's quote:

"Alas, companies go on presenting 'Swan Lake' as a crude choice between a good, loyally loving but passive victim and an evil, active and vampishly duplicitous sorceress. And ballet goes on abounding in sexist, melodramatic clichés. While this remains so, 'Black Swan' is the ballet movie our era deserves."

~ Alastair Macaulay, "The Many Faces of ‘Black Swan,’ Deconstructed" (Daily Beast)

Picture credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com