The Larry Gagosian Effect
With an unrelenting focus on selling, Mr. Gagosian, 65, has become the most powerful art dealer in the world. He represents the estates and careers of 77 of the world’s top artists, including Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Cy Twombly, Richard Serra, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst and Ed Ruscha. Dealers who track how he prices his gallery shows estimate he sells upwards of $1 billion worth of art a year. Sotheby’s, by comparison, auctioned off $870 million worth of contemporary art last year.
A Solitary Jailhouse Lawyer Argues His Way Out of Prison
There was no crusading journalist, no nonprofit group taking up his cause, just Inmate 95A2646, a high-school dropout from Brooklyn, alone in a computerless prison law library. Jabbar Collins pried documents from wary prosecutors, tracked down reluctant witnesses and persuaded them, at least once through trickery, to reveal what allegedly went on before and at the trial where he was convicted of the high-profile 1994 murder of Rabbi Abraham Pollack.
Runaway Money
A Children’s Classic, A 9-Year-Old-Boy And a Fateful Bequest – For Albert Clarke, the Rise Of ‘Goodnight Moon’ Is No Storybook Romance – Broken Homes, Broken Noses”
The Gambler Who Blew $127 Million
Requiem for the Dollar
Hollywood’s Favorite Cowboy
Author Cormac McCarthy, 76, talked about love, religion, his 11-year-old son, the end of the world and the movie based on his novel ‘The Road.’ He was just getting going.
A Talking Head Dreams of a Perfect City
Osaka’s robot-run parking lots mixed with the Minneapolis lakefront; a musician’s fantasy metropolis
The New American Dream: Renting
It’s time to accept that home ownership is not a realistic goal for many people and to curtail the enormous government programs fueling this ambition.
As Boom Times Sour in Vegas, Upward Mobility Goes Bust
The Myth of Prevention
A doctor explains why it doesn’t pay to stay well. Decoding what works, what falls short in Obama’s plans to reform health care