Quotes

Dignita, dovere e divertimento Dignity, duty, and fun. If you support other people and have a strong poinnt of view about important things, it’s

It’s such a crapshoot, and very often the talented people get lost by the side of the wayside, and the people with less talent

During my stay in Los Angeles, I asked all sorts of people, “What is an artist?” It’s an irritatingly basic questions, but reactions were

Even if the people here tonight were initially lured into the auction room by a love of art, they find themselves participating in a

Damien Hirst has made about a thousand “unique” spot paintings. In September 2008, on the day that Lehman Brothers collapsed, Sotheby’s sold two hundred

Some collectors are effectively buyng futures options on a work’s cultural signifigance. The high price is right for the number of users who will

aRT BASEL takes place in a purpose built hall called by the germans a Messe, as in worshippers going to Mass.

“animal spirits”—or “a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by

When asked about the importance of his class, Asher suggested modestly that it might have something to do with the “spirit of production.”

In most crit classes the prohibition against passing explicit value judgments is absolute.