About $20 billion of contemporary art is sold annually, which is comparable to the yearly sales of Nike. In other words, it only sounds like a lot of money.
Bubbles, Booms, and Busts: The Art Market in 2008
“That’s A Negative” has quickly become one of my favorite photography blogs, on the basis of unusual, well researched and image-rich posts like these:
The South Texas Border, 1900-1920
Satan’s Stereographs: Les Diableries, c. 1861
Chas’s post about some strange anonymous French stereographs includes a great quote about how little research or analysis has been done on many [...]
Can’t get enough of Errol Morris? The Walker Arts Center has posted a video of discussion with the documentary director, following a screening of his new film Standard Operating Procedure. The film reviews the torture conducted at Abu Ghraib prison and the systemic dysfunction of the prison and interrogation teams. On his NY Times “blog” [...]
A Iranian-supplied photograph of yesterday’s missile tests appears to have been altered to show four, rather than three missiles arcing skywards. Shades of the controversies around propagandistic press images altered by Photoshop during the recent Israeli/Hamas conflict in Lebanon. Was good enough to fool the NY Times, the LA Times, and Chicago Tribune, amongst others. [...]
