by Christopher Hudgens | Mar 20, 2008 | Blog
Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall and Andy Warhol were among artists whose works were counterfeited by seven people indicted for two art-fraud schemes that reaped a combined $5 million. Those charged include three Europeans and residents of New York, Florida and Illinois,...
by Christopher Hudgens | Mar 20, 2008 | Blog
Here is a visual breakdown (view image full size) of key indices in relation to the state of violence, oil production, death rate, phone subscriptions, prison population & most interestingly the electricity production. The most interesting measurement is when you...
by Christopher Hudgens | Mar 19, 2008 | Blog
A newly discovered wooden sculpture of a Buddha that had religious objects sealed in its torso for 800 years sold for $14.3 million, setting a world record for any Japanese work of art, Christie’s auction house said. The seated figure of Dainichi Nyorai, or the...
by Christopher Hudgens | Mar 19, 2008 | Blog
Chairman of the cosmetics company Estee Lauder; Leonard A. Lauder is giving $131 million US to the Whitney Museum of American Art. The gift is the largest donation in the institution’s history, with about $125 million going towards the New York museum’s...
by Christopher Hudgens | Mar 17, 2008 | Podcast
http://media.libsyn.com/media/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_133__Boston_AICA.mp3 download Sorry. We were a little slow due to power outages and the mediocre AT&T. Art Critic Greg Cook (The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix) joins Matt Nash, James Nadeau and...
