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It's a sunny week in London, without rains, without chills, and still, for a few days at least, without Frieze.  BLOG POSTED: 10/13/09

Cutlog, the newsest addition to Paris's art fair circuit, is more about inspiration than connections.  BLOG POSTED: 10/13/09

Monday night’s reception and preview of the latest Christie’s Interiors collection up for auction  wasn’t a Britney Spears concert, but it wasn’t completely a wash, either.  BLOG POSTED: 04/01/09

The world's media is ushering a moment unseen since the Stephen Sprouse bonanza last month, as Christie's sells off Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé's entire collection. You can watch it live!  BLOG POSTED: 02/23/09

If you find yourself both anxious about the economy and attending an auction, there's nothing like a raw juice retreat to appease your zeal for spending  BLOG POSTED: 12/02/08

Marc Jacobs is a fashion designer who's changing the meaning of that job. He does what an ordinary superdesigner does, i.e., create fashion-changing clothes for his own labels and for a great French house, but he also does so much more.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/30/08

First he outraged art audiences in the early 1990s with works like his shark in formaldehyde. (The New York city department of health banned one piece on the grounds that it might induce vomiting.) Then he outraged critics with tactics like decorating a cast of a human skull with 8,601 diamonds worth more than $20 million. Now, the ultimate British bad boy has outraged dealers by skipping the gallery and selling his work at auction. He may have just been making a little Hirst-style mischief-or changing the state of the art market forever.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/26/08

He made a fortune in rare, artistic gems. Now the dashing London tycoon is spending it to amass one of the most impressive contemporary art collections in the world. For this collector, you buy what you love. But love is usually complicated.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/26/08