Simon Hantaï Gone

from The New York Times Simon Hantaï, Painter of Silences, Dies at 85 By MARGALIT FOX Simon Hantaï, a highly regarded, famously reclusive French painter whose work explored ideas of absence and silence — and who took those ideas so seriously that he disappeared...

DYN-O-MITE! Horace Was Right

from the Financial Times   French novelist wins Nobel literature prize By Natalie Whittle Published: October 9 2008 12:16 | Last updated: October 9 2008 14:14   The novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio was yesterday awarded the Nobel Prize for literature....

WALL STREET for $71.00 do I hear 72…

from the Financial Times Gambling on price of art to become a reality By Deborah Brewster in New York Published: October 9 2008 03:49 | Last updated: October 9 2008 03:49   Investors will from Friday be able to bet on the price of art, when Intrade’s The Prediction...

Full-on Show At The Half

from Guest Of A Guest  Damon Johnson Gives His Dad Some REAL Gossip To Write About: Inspires Michael Ovitz, James Frey And Others To Emulate His Art [James Frey imitating a painting by Damon Johnson] JOHN NORWOODNYC: IT’S A BEAUTY – IT’S A BITCH! Go HERE for the...