This Magazine features literary insight and cultural commentary from our networks, and includes our coverage of the art market.
Twenty-two year ago sensors on the spacecraft Galileo picked up the existence of life on planet Earth. No big surprise. But what was salient about the experiment was that the space probe’s analysis system reached an accurate conclusion. In their search for extra-terrestrial life, scientists are zeroing in on so-called exoplanets. To narrow…
Chinese Culinary Culture Economic Observer Online Never before in Chinese history has a documentary film aroused so much public enthusiasm. Everybody is talking about a new 7-part documentary called A Bite of China which was recently broadcast late at night on CCTV 1. The documentary depicts various gourmet items across the vast Chinese culinary landscape….
Untitled (Chakraman) is a rare example of Nepalese painting. Visually striking in its scale and colour, and rich with iconography, it illustrates concepts connected to Buddhism, Hinduism, tantric principles and yoga, while depicting a great number of deities and incarnations.
Fine Art as a Percentage of Ultra High Net Worth Individuals’ Spending Has Remained Stable Adam Davidson has a good take on the art market in his New York Times Magazine column and offers an interesting take on art as an investment: Art is often valuable precisely because it isn’t a sensible way to make…
Sotheby’s New York auctioneer Tobias Meyer takes bids on Clyfford Still’s 1949-A-No. 1 (1949), which sold for a record-setting $61.7 million on Nov. 9, 2011 Speed is a synonym for velocity and the slang term for amphetamine, a drug creating an ecstatic illusion of rapidity and efficacy. Money, which plays an increasingly…
When you shift a person’s life, you shift it by changing the pattern of focus, the pattern of meaning and the pattern of action. When I recently met author, strategist and coach Tony Robbins backstage at a taping of Oprah Winfrey’s ground-breaking series Lifeclass, the first thing I was struck…
Fighting for no reason—how we’re hard-wired to be hostile I’ve been doing a lot of reading about relational psychology, and one fascinating chapter from a book on non-verbal communication which mentions that one of the predictors of a satisfying relationship is the ability to successfully read (or “decode”) the emotions of your partner. Let’s be…
By Karissa Rosenfield Courtesy of Deep Ocean Technology Dubai shipbuilder Drydocks World has signed on with Switzerland’s BIG InvestConsult, on behalf of partner Deep Ocean Technology (DOT), to become the sole construction contractor of the futuristic Water Discus Underwater Hotels in the Middle East. Tailored to the luxurious lifestyle, aspiring divers and marine life enthusiasts,…
A ship flying in space:’ Earth seen through the eyes of an astronaut By Matthew Knight, CNN April 22, 2012 – Nespoli posted regular updates on Twitter. “I was amazed by the response from people. It was very fulfilling for me,” he said. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Italian astronaut captures amazing images of Earth from International Space…
A study of mobile phone calls suggests that women call their spouse more than any other person. That changes as their daughters become old enough to have children, after which they become the most important person in their lives. The study has been published in the journal Scientific Reports. It also shows that men…