The Yes List – Wes Anderson's Fantastic Fox
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Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, Wes Anderson's magical Fantastic Mr. Fox, a provocative Man Ray retrospective, and the Newport Jazz Festival goes digital.
The French actress and filmmaker during the first festival held in September 1946. Morgan received the best actress award for her performance in La...
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.
The Portrait of Madame M (1932) Estimate: $6-8 million
How China Conquered the 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.
In the past three years, six Chinese artists have been responsible for nearly $400 million in sales. Arne Glimcher on China's continued rise in the art market in the face of the global meltdown.
Weekend Eye
Catie Marron is a former editor of living and style at Vogue and the current chairman of the board of trustees at the New York Public Library.
A century after he hit the scene, Pablo Picasso is dominating this fall's big museum shows. If you can't take a global museum jaunt, VIEW OUR GALLERY.
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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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