Redacción BBC News Mundo10 mayo 2022
Un icónico retrato de Marilyn Monroe por Andy Warhol se ha convertido en la obra de arte del siglo XX más cara jamás vendida.
Se comercializó en una subasta de Christie's en Nueva York por US$195 millones.
Warhol pintó el cuadro Shot Sage Blue Marilyn en 1964 usando una famosa fotografía como inspiración.
También es el precio más alto pagado hasta la fecha por una obra de arte estadounidense. Read More...
WHITE HOUSE counselor Kellyanne Conway is well-versed in long-standing ethics law that bars federal employees from engaging in partisan politics while on the job. Restrictions of the Hatch Act have been spelled out to her in formal training, individual conversations and multiple written communications by the Office of White House Counsel. She simply doesn’t care that she violates the law. “Blah, blah, blah. ... Let me know when the jail sentence starts,” she quipped to a reporter. Read More...
At the pandemic’s beginning, members of Congress dispersed, and both parties’ leaders in the House of Representatives agreed, as rules permit, to pass the Cares Act without a quorum or roll call if no one objected. Thomas Massie objected to spending $2.1 trillion that way.
Having forced Congress to reconvene, the Kentucky Republican drove all night to get to the Capitol, where the House was united in bipartisan fury against him. Read More...
