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.

Author: Kelly Crow
Published: Apr 1, 2011
Length: 10 minutes (2,729 words)

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.

Published: Dec 24, 2010
Length: 11 minutes (2,762 words)

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”

Published: Aug 16, 2010
Length: 16 minutes (4,045 words)

The Gambler Who Blew $127 Million

Published: Dec 5, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,761 words)

Requiem for the Dollar

Published: Dec 5, 2009
Length: 26 minutes (6,573 words)

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.

Published: Nov 20, 2009
Length: 24 minutes (6,139 words)

A Talking Head Dreams of a Perfect City

Osaka’s robot-run parking lots mixed with the Minneapolis lakefront; a musician’s fantasy metropolis

Published: Sep 11, 2009
Length: 6 minutes (1,656 words)

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.

Published: Aug 14, 2009
Length: 8 minutes (2,142 words)

As Boom Times Sour in Vegas, Upward Mobility Goes Bust

Published: Jul 20, 2009
Length: 8 minutes (2,023 words)

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

Published: Jun 20, 2009
Length: 9 minutes (2,488 words)