The Savvy Guide to Finally Starting an Art Collection
Time to Start with Art: The Contemporary art world need not be daunting if you’re prepared to dive in, ask questions and be honest about what you like
Bunny Mellon
Homes of Notables Often List for Top Dollar, But Their Sale Prices Are Another Matter
In a town famous for both real estate obsession and official indifference to celebrity, the precise appeal—and monetary value—of property connected to bold-faced names can be difficult to suss out.
Anthony Haden-Guest at the ICI Gala, in the Imperial Splendor of the Cunard Building
ICI had once stood for Imperial Chemicals Industry, a juggernaut, a kind of a Brit Dow Chemical, until it had been picked apart, the last chunk being sold to a Dutch paint conglomerate in 2008. Then my brain kicked in. Within was the top brass of a quite different ICI—Independent Curators International, the non-profit contemporary art center that organizes, among other things, traveling exhibitions—and an event on the calendar of another empire, arguably a more international one than any other current contender: the Empire of Art. I pivoted (the modish word nowadays) and was let through.
