This site, Park Avenue Peerage basically just shows photos of really hot, socialite-type girls and women. Yup, that is all it needs to be.

I just finished this book, The Worth of Art 2, by Judith Benhamou-Huet.  It is a fairly light read, hitting on some current topics such as art inflation and market climates, as well as buyers and artists motivation.  This would be a good time to pick it up as New York’s Art Fairs kick into gear during the middle of this week.

Damn, the Media has been keeping this rather quiet.

via, Boing Boing

Just because you’re Cai Guo-Qiang and you have a huge retrospective at the Guggenheim, does not mean that your work will sell at auction.

more at Bloomberg

Desperate times call for desperate measures. For quite some time the New Brow movement seemed to be insulated from the criminal world. Now, with the latest news of another theft of a Lori Earley drawing from Jonathan Levine, and word from Pictures on Walls and Bast’s website about forgeries of work, the gates have opened. With these artists commanding contemporary prices and our economy slowly falling to pieces, I guess it was only a matter of time before things started getting shady.

**The update now includes some authenticity issues regarding KAWS work.

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