Art Frazzle 2008
For someone like me, whose annual budget does not include reserves for works by Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel or Francesco Vezzoli, I have to get creative in my search for affordable art at Art Basel.
For me, last week, the uncertainty of things in New York was, for a moment, overwhelming. I climbed into my bed in the afternoon and wished I could return to England.
For someone like me, whose annual budget does not include reserves for works by Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel or Francesco Vezzoli, I have to get creative in my search for affordable art at Art Basel.
Being let go from your job can be difficult, stressful and surprising all at once. It is perfectly acceptable to take some time to process what has happened and cope with it appropriately.
Over several decades I've traveled to more than a hundred countries, often alone. Many of them were challenging and so-called third world, but I've gotten through incipient coups and typhoons without major incident.
This morning the news features stories of a stressed economy, but that takes second place to the smashing in of a Wal-Mart door by gluttonous Americans seeking deals on X-Box toys.
In this (quite literally) transcendental production of Ivanov, all conventional staging is completely abandoned.
I understand Helmut Lang is a very prestigious designer. His $600 parka, however, looks like a big ugly sack. Who wants to spend all that time at the gym if your new-found size 4 looks like a 16?
When I told my husband about the worker trampled by frenzied Wal-Mart shoppers on Friday morning, he thought it was a joke.
I am proud and slightly flummoxed to say that I do not (as yet) have a criminal record. On the advice of my attorney, who is in jail, I can't say anything except that I am disappointed I recently wasn't chosen for jury duty.
It is the American dream to make a rush toward fortune. In 1849, people swarmed to California for gold. In the late 1920s, people rushed to the stock markets when margins were as low as 10%.
The turkey's finally digested and another online shopping season is in high gear, so with your indulgence here's my plug for New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund merchandise.
I had gone to India as so many had, to find a spiritual teacher, to find a meditation method -- really to find myself. It became my spiritual home. For years I couldn't imagine living anywhere else.
I worship those who donate their time and money to help others. But I have no words for the concept of shoppers trampling a store employee and fellow shoppers to make the most of Black Friday.