The Week In Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Tina Fey goes for Emmy gold, a new absurdist Jane Austen book, and more. View our gallery of the best of music, TV, film, and art.
The Week in Culture
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Michelle Obama wowed the art world, the King of Pop's comeback stalled, and there's a new Footloose star on the horizon. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best in film, television, and art.
Art's New Price Hype
Arne Glimcher is the founder and chairman of the PaceWildenstein art gallery. He is also a published author, a film producer and a director, whose pictures include The Mambo Kings, Gorillas in the Mist, and Picasso & Braque Go to the Movies.
As the second week of spring art auctions begins today, Arne Glimcher wonders whether the Sotheby's and Christie's have overestimated the market.
The Art World's New Math
Paul Laster is the editor of Artkrush.com, a contributing editor at Flavorpill.com and Art Asia Pacific, and a contributing writer at Time Out New York and Art in America.
The spring auctions will be smaller and the sales expectations are lower, but Paul Laster reports the quality is high-Picasso, Hockney, Ernst-and there are even some bargains.
Brave New Art World
Arne Glimcher is the founder and chairman of the PaceWildenstein art gallery. He is also a published author, a film producer and a director, whose pictures include The Mambo Kings, Gorillas in the Mist, and Picasso & Braque Go to the Movies.
Despite cooling sales, more art was produced in the last decade than at any other time in history.
The Art World's Hot Investment
James Wilentz loves Old Master paintings as much as he has loved hip-hop. After eschewing a career in the music business, he now runs oldmastersnewperspectives.com, a website dedicated to insightful coverage of the arts, which he sees as undervalued. He can be reached via email at: james@oldmastersnewperspectives.com.
Despite sluggish auction sales and a general feeling of panic within the art world, last week's Art Basel extravagance seemed to suggest that the market will be just fine. And in the case of the Old Masters, it will be.
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Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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