Happy Valentines Day, suckers: how Damien Hirst’s cashing in on Cupid
The artist’s latest show, featuring banal images of love hearts and butterflies, looks like an attempt to squeeze money out of innocent punters
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The award for the wealthiest Hollywood tycoon goes to…
Hollywood’s Richest Movie Personalities revealed by Wealth-X. George Lucas, Arnon Milchan, Steven Spielberg, and Austin Hearst are richest individuals in the American film industry. George Lucas tops Wealth-X‘s Hollywood Rich List with a fortune of US$5.4 billion, mostly derived from revenue from the Star Wars franchise and the sale of LucasFilm to Disney for US$4 billion … Read more
Has art boxed itself into a corner?
They’ve starved, stripped and suffocated. We’ve seen them sleep, do shopping and read out lists. Now, PJ Harvey wants us to watch her record a whole album while she sits in a big box. Time to pack in art’s most claustrophobic trend?
Anthony Bourdain x The Balvenie spotlight artisans in new Raw Craft series
Food personality, chef, author and raconteur Anthony Bourdain was enlisted by Scotch whisky maker Balvenie to host a series of short films that highlight artisans, craftspeople and artists who produce items by hand. The partnership between the world’s most handcrafted single malt Scotch whisky and the popular storyteller will be three-fold and will see … Read more
Moog goes back to the future with re-issues of classic synthesisers
US company plans to hand-build a limited run of three large-format synthesisers first released in 1973 – with price tags ranging from $10,000 to $35,000
How Monet became blue chip: the language of wealthy art buyers
Painting of the Grand Canal expected to fetch up to £30m, amid surging interest from super-rich in Asia and Middle East