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Prospect Magazine: A Second Tulip Mania - ‘A golden age of art? Nonsense, it is a classic investment bubble.’

The Independent: ‘Artists’ gallery’ unveils £13.5m expansion

NYT: Less than a year after the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opened a $56 million museum for contemporary art named for Eli Broad, the billionaire philanthropist [...] has decided to build his own museum.

Ninemsn: Man tries to pay bill with spider drawing Spider minus a leg sells for thousands

The Guardian: New York art sales, ‘I knew it was too good to last’

The Art Newspaper: Protest over advertising in St Mark’s Square, Venice

Designworkplan: Dutch government introduces corporate typeface (Via Fontanel)

Artinfo: No Bailout at Christie’s [...] Four artist records were set, including for a rare and beautiful Yayoi Kusama abstraction, No.2 from 1959 (est. $2.5–3.5 million). The work, which was once owned by Donald Judd, fetched a bullish $5,794,500, making it the most expensive artwork by a living woman artist.