Christie’s, London, had another auction last week. This one dedicated to Dutch photographers. They were lucky that the financial and economical crises seemed not to have reached the super rich art collectors. Five thousand up to twenty thousands euro’s was not unusual. Most was paid for “the ice cream parlour” from the series “Rain” by [...]
Barack Obama elected as President of United States. So indeed at the end of the day finally common sense won. Or like Colson said…intellectual won over some populism
Unlike Kerry in 2004 whom was unable to win those big states despite of a growing popular vote. Obama was able to win convincingly with 349 [...]
They had it coming.
A lot of us may have these kind of feelings. Like Jake Tapper wrote: “In 2007, Wall Street’s five biggest firms — Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley — paid a record $39 billion in bonuses to themselves”. It’s self-evident that it tells everything about their performances. [...]
The quote is from Kishore Mahbubani, a learned and eminent Singapore citizen of Indian descent. He himself is making tidal waves in the media and universities by his books in which he castigates the West for arrogance, geo political incompetence and complacency, while at the same time he proclaims the ascent of Asian progress. While [...]
For John Lennon ( “A Day in the Life” ) the news was about a lucky man who made the grade, a guy who blew his mind out in a car and four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire. But guess what was in the papers today? What were the headlines shouting? What do they think [...]