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Market Values
July 03, 2019
On a snowy, sleety evening last November, inside the auction room at Phillips on Park Avenue, Henry Highley was waiting at a lacquered podium. Potential buyers filed in slowly, closing their umbrellas, unzipping their parkas, and making their way to their seats with their ...

San Francisco, Please Stand Up
June 05, 2019
Everyone is obsessed with San Francisco right now. It has become a symbol, a cliché, a fable about money and technology. The moral is different depending on who you ask. A sampling of headlines from the last month in local and national news: “How San Francisco broke ...

Rotten Goes Rancid
May 23, 2019
John Lydon has mutated into a member of the self-satisfied whiny bourgeoise set he made a profitable career out of shocking.

Home/work
April 11, 2019
One of industrial capitalism’s gravest sins is the separation of work from home. Factories cleaved in two what was once a unified sphere, a place that you both created and inhabited, living relatively un-alienated amongst the fruits of your labor. Not that it was an equal ...