GME, Doge, Supreme: How Getting Rich Went Full Internet
The internet is changing everything we thought we knew about the value of stuff—from stocks, to flying cherub art, to cats with Pop-Tart bodies.
The internet is changing everything we thought we knew about the value of stuff—from stocks, to flying cherub art, to cats with Pop-Tart bodies.
Felix Salmon Wealthsimple Magazine Mar 2021 Permalink
How an art shipper took advantage of the market’s opaque rules and shadowy deal-making to rip off a Russian oligarch.
Sam Knight New Yorker Feb 2016 35min Permalink
On new art boom and one of its most powerful players, David Zwirner.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Nov 2013 40min Permalink
A look at Andy Warhol’s enduring popularity and power in the art market.
Warhol’s art was not supposed to be a matter of emotion, introspection or spiritual quest; it was to be an image, pure and simple. “During the 1960s,” he wrote knowingly in 1975, “I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don’t think they’ve ever remembered.”
Bryan Appleyard Intelligent Life Nov 2011 20min Permalink