A Poor Collector’s Guide to Buying Great Art

Even with a good sum of spare cash, selecting artworks to invest in can seem daunting and, for those on a budget, nearly impossible. Erling Kagge’s book “A Poor Collector’s Guide to Buying Great Art” answers essential questions, including how to get started, how to take one’s tastes seriously, how to learn to appraise prices and more, so new collectors can spend more time enjoying …

Hello! Selfie Miami

Like a real-life Tumblr page, artist, author and feminist Kate Durbin created “Hello!Selfie Miami,” a performance piece that occurred last week during Miami Art Week. The response to a man’s attack on Durbin’s piece about teen girls’s selfies manifested in a bunch of young women—dressed as mermaids and covered in Hello Kitty stickers—taking selfies for hours on end, with no interaction with their audience. Durbin …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

The reusable rocket that made it back to Earth, light sabers inspired by designers and more in this week's look at the web

1. Otis Johnson on Life After 44 Years in Prison At the age of 25, Otis Johnson was sentenced to 44 years in prison. Now 69 years old, Johnson is finally free and has re-entered society—albeit a much different one than he left behind. In a video produced by Al Jazeera, Johnson discusses the strangeness of the modern world, including people walking attached to their …