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…
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…
Author Katie Roiphe and her novel 50 Shades Of Grey has swept the nation and the book itself is on Kindle, which only adds to the feeding frenzy for the movie rights. More digital ink has been spilled on love novels for women and their sexual desires than any other genre The…
At 29, Sheikha Mayassa Al Thani is the art world’s most powerful woman. THE starkly beautiful Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Doha, Qatar, is a fine setting for a dinner. Last month 200 dealers, collectors and curators gathered there for the opening of the first showing in the Middle East…
We’ve all been there. Agence France-Presse reports that a German man in Munich allegedly had to flee to the police after a woman demanded too much sex. After several amicably agreed upon rolls in the hay, the man reportedly tried to leave the woman’s apartment. But she wouldn’t let him exit…
Women Having Wilder Sex And Watching Porn Fifty Shades of Grey’ Film Adaptation Faces Challenge From ‘Control-Freak’ Author If bestselling books turned into movies are hot, bestselling books about kinky sex turned into movies about kinky sex must be even hotter. 50 Shades of Grey is the “triple-X” trilogy originally self-published by E.L. James that’s being devoured by women across the…
March 20, 2012 Knowledge is a property of the network: Mapping Britannica’s world in a Wikipedia age Matthew Battles argues that the nature of knowledge is changing in the context of networks. By Matthew Battles Email At The New Republic, David A. Bell offers a wistful threnody for the paper edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica,…
“I call it a sexual revolution: a Catalan boy meets a Flemish girl, they fall in love, get married — and they become European, just like their children.”
Pablo Picasso “Nudes in a Forest,” Paris, spring 1908 watercolor, gouache and graphite on wove paper 47.6 x 59.1 cm (18 3/4 x 23 1/4 in.), Philadelphia Museum of Art / Courtesy of National Gallery of Art Pablo Picasso was the most inventive artist the West has ever known, and his drawings let us…