Article: The Great Contemporary Art Bubble on BBC Four.

Article: So who put the con in contemporary art? ; Two weeks ...
Evening Standard - London;  November 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... its most lucrative ever contemporary art auction, with $311 million ... speculative bubble known as the contemporary art boom is about to crash ... million, look like a snip. Contemporary art has now become a poker game ... of this vastly inflated art bubble, and the ...

Article: Switch on: Panorama, the great contemporary art ...
Sentinel, The (Stoke-on-Trent UK);  May 18, 2009 ;     349 words ...1066: The Battle For Middle Earth C4, 9pm IT'S the most famous date in British history, but what was it like for the people caught up in its catastrophic events? This innovative blend of historical drama and original source material re- imagines the story of this decisive year, not from the saddles

Article: The great art bubble
The Spectator;  December 10, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... the Cannes Film Festival of the contemporary art world, I attended a dinner hosted ... Art Basel Miami, where prices for contemporary art showed no sign of calming down. During ... fair for about $900,000. Has the contemporary art world gone raving mad? Are the record ...

Article: Art bubble kills two.(News)
The Journal (Newcastle, England);  July 24, 2006 ;     380 words ... ... into the air ( with dozens of people trapped inside. Onlookers watched in horror as people fell to the ground from the "art bubble", which was blown 100 yards carrying about 30 people, many of them children. The horrific scene ( captured by a mobile ...

Article: Blow-away art bubble kills two.(News)
The Journal (Newcastle, England);  July 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... inflatable art installation at Riverside Park, Chester-le-Street, County Durham. Tent pegs snapped out of the ground and the art bubble was blown skywards, as the 30 people who were trapped inside screamed in terror. The temporary installation called Dreamscape ...

Article: Pop Art: Bubble Wrap & Other Marvels
The Washington Post;  November 26, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The allure of Bubble Wrap was not the main point when Farrah Fawcett swathed herself in it for Playboy magazine a few years ago. The actress was turning 50, and the Bubble Wrap provided just the right cushioning for a photo spread in her birthday suit. This is a family newspaper, so we can't

Article: The fantasies of a Cold War child Born during the Cultural ...
International Herald Tribune;  May 8, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... artist, over the American myth and menace that scarred his youth and the dark days facing Chinese contemporary art. Indeed, even as the art bubble was bursting, two of Mr. Liao's pieces sold for double their auction estimates in mainland ...