Last last year, The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, a boring-sounding but enormously influential group of regulators from 27 nations, published what might have been the single most important document in finance.
Nicknamed Basel III, it proposed a much more rigorous set of guidelines for leverage at global banks. “Provided it is not watered down, Read More
Jonathan Napack, 39, an Asian art expert and former New York Observer columnist, died of pneumonia on Jan. 20 at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong. He died in the country where he worked for over a decade to build connections between Asian art and the Western world.
A fixture in galleries, studios and collections, Read More
There was a time when suffering for your art often meant just that: years of obscurity punctuated by worried phone calls from one’s parents asking if you were getting enough to eat. But not now.
“The art world today is much more of a business than it was in the 70’s,” said Mirabelle Marden, the Read More
Few people play the zipper quite like Ken Butler. Tucking a microphone down his pants, the Brooklyn-based musician counter- rhythmically zips and unzips his fly to a soundtrack of pre-recorded beats. He plays other instruments: His head doubles as a bongo drum, and he “scratches” a toothbrush across his teeth as adeptly as a D.J. Read More
Few people play the zipper quite like Ken Butler. Tucking a microphone down his pants, the Brooklyn-based musician counter- rhythmically zips and unzips his fly to a soundtrack of pre-recorded beats. He plays other instruments: His head doubles as a bongo drum, and he “scratches” a toothbrush across his teeth as adeptly as a D.J. Read More
If one more person asks me if I’m “headed down to Art Basel” this week, I’m going to scream—which, of course, I will videotape and then take to next year’s Art Basel and sell to Charles Saatchi for as much money as can be extorted out of him.
I’m sure my video scream—entitled The Read More
If one more person asks me if I’m “headed down to Art Basel” this week, I’m going to scream—which, of course, I will videotape and then take to next year’s Art Basel and sell to Charles Saatchi for as much money as can be extorted out of him.
I’m sure my video scream—entitled The Scream, Read More
Grow Up!
To the Editor:
I congratulate your celebration of “The Power Geezers” [Dec. 19]. The issue conveyed a critical message about the continued value and vitality of those too often considered “old.” By focusing on individuals who are strong, vigorous, smart and powerful, you demonstrate an important point that the “younger generations” have Read More
Last week at Art Basel Miami Beach, any nervous talk of an art bubble was drowned out by the roar of pens furiously scribbling across checkbooks. But inside this delicious bubble, if you’re one of this season’s art-world “It” boys, you should at least be careful to whom you give your cell number. “Bianca Jagger Read More
Last week at Art Basel Miami Beach, any nervous talk of an art bubble was drowned out by the roar of pens furiously scribbling across checkbooks. But inside this delicious bubble, if you’re one of this season’s art-world “It” boys, you should at least be careful to whom you give your cell number. “Bianca Jagger Read More
