shining a light on the shadowy fine art industry
Photo by ProtoplasmaKid, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons via Creative Commons license.
This week, a parable of fact, fiction, and inflexibility in the arts…
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A NASA/Hubble Space telescope image of UGC 695, a low-surface-brightness galaxy that is especially rich in dark matter. Photo by ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Calzetti. Courtesy of Creative Commons license.
This week, squinting into the darkness (again)…
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A visitor trying out a Samsung V.R. Headset at SXSW in 2015.
Photo by Nan Palmero. Courtesy of Wikipedia, via Creative Commons license.
This week, a hard look at what’s hiding in plain sight…
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DALL-E 2-generated result for the prompt "astronaut riding a horse in a photorealistic style." Courtesy of OpenAI.
This week, looking up from the latest shiny novelty…
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Robert Rauschenberg, Retroactive II (1963). Photo by Sharon Mollerus.
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This week, another look at the landscape of incentives…
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A scene from a 2014 episode of "The Drax Files Radio Hour," a talk radio series about the metaverse, broadcast from within the online virtual world Second Life.
Image by: HyacintheLuynes. Courtesy of Wikimedia, via Creative Commons license.
This week, taking nothing for granted…
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Former G.E. CEO Jack Welch onstage at the seventh World Business Forum in 2010. Photo: Challenge Future. Courtesy of Wikimedia, via Creative Commons license.
This week, redefining the term “corporate collecting”…
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Photo: Jeff Kubina. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons via Creative Commons license.
This week, wondering when a buoyant market will go bust…
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Banksy, Diamond in the Rough (2010). Courtesy of Christie’s Images Ltd.
This week, the ups and downs of stepping into new frontiers…
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The original iPod model. Photo by Blake Patterson. Courtesy of Flickr, via Creative Commons license.
This week, a reminder that technology is rarely, if ever, enough on its own…
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