The 100 Most Valuable Works of Art

from Kempt via Art Market Monitor  IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING For those of us without fabulous wealth, it’s hard to appreciate the psychic brutality at work in the art collection game. High profile collectors aren’t usually aesthetes or intellectuals; they’re corporate...

The Wrong Art Wins

from Bloomberg.com Jeers, Cheers Greet Kandinsky Winner, Painter Beliayev-Guintovt  By John Varoli   Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) — Alexey Beliayev-Guintovt took Russia’s top contemporary-art award, the Kandinsky Prize, with a series of nationalist paintings...

Fan Death

from The Cool Hunter The Rebirth Of Disco Much like designers, musicians are continually swinging through history, cherry-picking the best bits from long-forgotten eras and reinterpreting them with a modern slant. Recently, we’ve trudged through nostalgic New Order...

Herb & Dorothy

from The Moment blog @ The New York Times ABMB | Meet the Vogels By MADHU PURI Megumi Sasaki’s documentary film “ Herb & Dorothy” debuts tonight at The Colony Theater in Miami as part of ABMB’s “Art Loves Film” series. The movie is a sweet tale about Herbert and...

“I hurt so much / I bleed.”

from the LA Times Self-injury on the rise among young people Self-inflicted injuries appear to be on the rise, with some young people actually embedding objects in their skin. Stress may be a factor. By Shari Roan December 8, 2008 The revelation was shocking enough....