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Here Comes Debtfair, a Market for Art Inequality Across the City

"Starving artists" may be an affectionate term for the city's legions of struggling creatives, but it belies a more disturbing trend. Art market prices have shot up faster than the GDP, and the globalization of the marketplace prompted NPR's Adam Davidson to conclude last year that the "art market, ... More >>

Sink into Ragnar Kjartansson's Soggy Serenade

Enter The Visitors' surround-sound solace

How Uptown Money Kills Downtown Art

Locked Out Sotheby's Art Handlers, No. 84 On the Voice List of "Most Powerless New Yorkers," Back On the Job

We guess we'll have to strike the art professionals who handle some of the world's most expensive items when they head to auction from our list of the "100 Most Powerless New Yorkers." Crain's reported yesterday that auction house Sotheby's and the Teamsters worked out a deal which allows the art h ... More >>

Locked Out Art Handlers Have 14 Million New Reasons To 'Scream' At Sotheby's

As you may have heard, Sotheby''s had a good day yesterday, auctioning off Edward Munch's "The Scream" for a record $119.9 million dollars. Not having such a good day? The still locked-out art handlers at Sotheby's, who appeared as number 84 on the Voice's list of the "100 Most Powerless New Yorke ... More >>

London's Big-Deal Art Fair Hits New York, Occupy Hits Back

Seize the frieze

Sotheby's, Famed Auction House, Caught Knowingly Trying to Sell Stolen Cambodian Statue, Prosecutors Say

Sotheby's tried to sell a 1,000-year-old Cambodian statue that was pilfered from an important religious site, even though the famed auction house knew it had been stolen, federal prosecutors say. In a story filled with intrigue, spies, temple thieves, and the scent of money, federal prosecutors in ... More >>

The Whitney Biennial 2012—Caution: Dead End

America's big art show trades the real world for conceptual clutter

Art Versus Politics, 2012

Three Voice critics debate the issue in the age of Occupy and Ai Weiwei

W.E.

100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

A 'power list' for the rest of us

Diana Taylor, Bloomberg's Girlfriend and Sotheby's Board Member, Blasts Locked Out Art Handlers

​Mayor Bloomberg's normally reserved companion, Diana Taylor, lashed out at locked out Sotheby's art handlers, who interrupted a planning commission meeting to question her about the stalled negotiations, according to a video of the incident posted on youtube. Union officials called on Gov. Cu ... More >>

Felix Rivera-Pitre, Protester Sought for Arrest After Being Punched by Cop, Inspires March to D.A.'s Office

C.S. Muncy​One of the more recent instances of alleged police brutality against Occupy Wall Street protesters involves Felix Rivera-Pitre, who was allegedly punched by a police officer identified as Deputy Inspector Johnny Cardona last week after the movement won the right to stay in Zuccotti ... More >>

Four Loko Is Back... With a New Can!; Vodka Marketing Is Out of Control

​If you thought you'd heard the last of Four Loko, were you ever wrong. After removing caffeine from the recipe last year, Four Loko's makers have agreed to change the label to read, "This can has as much alcohol as 4 regular (12 oz. 5 percent alc/vol) beers." That should do the trick. [FOX Ne ... More >>

Does the Chelsea Hotel Have an Art Thief?

​Hot on the heels of the Hoboken Picasso thief, ArtInfo reports that the Chelsea Hotel has been undergoing a Thomas Crown affair of its own. The hotel, designated a landmark in 1966, put up for sale in 2010, has walls "caked with art" by former and current hotel residents, like Henri Cartier-B ... More >>

Giant 35,000-Pound Teddy Bear Coming to New York City

via East Hampton Star​Remember your childhood teddy bear? The one you had a truly special friendship with, your very own Mr. Bigglesworth? That guy you dragged to every park, play date, and preschool until he got too dirty and worn out? Your mom then had commit her first truly evil deed as a m ... More >>

NYC's Ten Worst Tenants

We hope you don't live next to these people

Rosé in the Wintertime; Vintage Beer All the Rage

​Andrew Lloyd Webber sold $5.6 million worth of French wine at Sotheby's Hong Kong, including a 1982 case of Château Pétrus for $77,564. [Wall Street Journal] Emilio Estevez finds comfort and inspiration in his backyard vineyard, Casa Dumetz, where he often writes dialogue. [NY Times] Herb ... More >>

Introducing the 100-Proof Turkey; 60-Year-Old Macallan Now World's Most Expensive Scotch

​The age-old Thanksgiving Day question is back: red or white. The answer? It doesn't matter -- just make sure you have lots of it and plastic cups for doling it out. [NY Times] Drinks International, a trade magazine, has named two Australian bars the best in the region. So, what's so great ab ... More >>

King of Falafel Takes Vendys; Seafood Soup All the Rage

​First lady Michelle Obama hosted spouses of world leaders at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, where a lunch of ingredients from the farm and from the White House garden was served. [AP] The King of Falafel won best vendor and People's Choice at the 2010 Vendy Awards. Fares (Freddy) Zeideia can usua ... More >>

Slushies Go Upmarket; Sotheby's to Auction Rare Veggies

​Mario Batali is writing a vegetarian cookbook. He already hosts "Meatless Mondays" at all 14 of his restaurants, and limits himself to five meals with meat per week. [NY Daily News] Upmarket slushies are all the rage. Not only is a new food truck specializing in all natural shaved ices, but ... More >>

Globetrotting Gabriel Orozco Alights at MOMA

Señor Skymiles gets a big retrospective

Q&A: Amy Braunschweiger, Taxi Confidential

​ Taxi culture is a big part of New York lore -- Jimmy Cagney, Robert DeNiro, and Ernest Borgnine are among the many memorable movie hacks -- but real cabbies don't get much attention unless they're delivering a baby in the backseat or something like that. Amy Braunschweiger's Taxi Confident ... More >>

Sotheby's, a Retired Teacher, and California Artist Martín Ramirez

Auctionable behavior in the middle of a folk-art fight

James Brown? James Brown! Auctioning Off His Collection at Christie's

Acid Reign

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Carey Young's "If/Then," 'The Office,' and Jean Foos's 'The Other Me'

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

A Magna Carta Sales Event!

Seeing Dollar Signs

Is the art market making us stupid? Or are we making it stupid?

Wiped Out

Reconstruction Zone

An artist's quasi-religious, art-historical, life-and-death parable

Superheroes and Friends Invade Gotham This Weekend

La Dolce Musto

Hammered

Auctions are like stripteases, relying on the audience being enticed by what’s out of reach

Dire Diary

The gushy artforum.com items read like the Us magazine of art criticism

The Week in Review

Photo Shop

To Have And To Mold

Marriage American Style

On the C-Line

The View From Grove Street

What Becomes a Legend Most?

Selling King's Papers; Reclaiming Malcolm X's

Checking in for Waldorf Hysteria

Free Traders and Fair Traders in Stalemate as CEOs Converge on New York

Babylon Now

Bucking the System in Bizarro World

NY Mirror

420 rip

The Life and Death of Soho’s Gallery Cornerstone

The Call of the Wild

The Silence of the Iambs

Forged Poem Becomes Hot Literary Property

Going? Going? Gone!

Is the Art World’s Cult of Secrecy About to End?

Born to Run

Every Step You Take

Stalk Stories

Poetry Project

'Ginsberg and Friends' at Sotheby's