During the robber-baron years, when wealthy industrialists and newly minted tycoons avidly acquired Old Master art as signs of status, Americans' appetite for Rembrandts was so keen that attributions were often extremely optimistic.
They kept the traditions of Afghan music alive while music was banned under the Taleban, and recruited Ustad Farida Mahwash, who was Afghanistan's top radio star of the 1970s and the only female vocalist to get the celebrity status of Ustad, which means master musician.