Art is, quite possibly, the least commoditised asset in the investment universe, offering the potential for great returns but also—as is rarely explained by its market proponents—subject to enormous risk.
Category: Culture
Some Of Their Parts
Howorth’s hands are insured for £5 million ($7.8 million), and she takes extraordinary care to look after them, given her job as a professional hand model. When she sunbathes, she wears gloves to protect them from the sun’s harmful rays; she opens car doors carefully; and she moisturises her hands more than 30 times a day.
I thought that made it unlikely she would proffer a hand; worse, were she to do so, I feared I might squeeze too hard and do untold damage to her livelihood — or perhaps get a call from her insurer and her solicitor.
David Byrne: Will Work for Inspiration.
The city is a body and a mind—a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information. Knowledge and creativity are resources. If the physical (and financial) parts are functional, then the flow of ideas, creativity and information are facilitated. The city is a fountain that never stops: it generates its energy from the human interactions that take place in it. Unfortunately, we’re getting to a point where many of New York’s citizens have been excluded from this equation for too long. The physical part of our city—the body—has been improved immeasurably.
Changing The World, One Luxury Timepiece At A Time
As a final touch, ’56-3701F42′, the serial number of the destroyed weapon the metal is from, has been hand engraved beside the plate. It’s a subtle yet powerful reminder of just what this timepiece stands for. The Inversion Principle timepiece will be limited to just 20 pieces (10 in each metal) and will retail from US$350,000 with revenues from the sale of each timepiece used to fund the destruction of one thousand assault weapons in Africa.
Rebuilding Violent Places
The architectural task in the long aftermath of such shootings is not only to repair structural damage but to calibrate a balance between remembering and forgetting sufficient for daily life to continue nearby—and to figure out how the shapes, materials, and details of buildings can participate in that calibration.
