The U.S. Treasury Department is scared out of its wits regarding the current plight of investment banking institutions. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson claims that the government must quickly give the Federal Reserve more power to regulate the financial system, saying this year’s financial market turmoil highlighted the need for action. Know this now: we have

Okay, this is what I actually donated to the “Women in Transportation Seminar” Annual Scholarship auction… I really like the way this set turned out.  I started making the 3 tiers to form a triangle and started staring at it to figure out how to dangle stuff off of it.  My eyes glanced at my

On Saturday, Pamela Anderson delighted fans when she turned up at Planet Hollywood for a much-publicized celebrity auction. To rev up a bit of excitement in the crowd, the former VIP star tossed off her top, then sidled up to the auctioneer to participate in the proceeding with a lot of sensual vim and vigor! By the

Damien Hirst’s latest creation — a bull submerged in formaldehyde, with a head crowned by a solid-gold disc, and hooves and horns cast in 18-karat gold — is expected to fetch $16 million to $24 million when it is sold at a Sotheby’s auction in London on Sept. 15. “The Golden Calf,” above, with the

(Copyright) The WALTHER REPORT By Tony Walther Those young bankers were right the day they came out to see my beef project. They suggested that what I really should be doing was raising vegetables, operating a kind of truck farm, as they used to say. My half-hearted goal at the time was to be a cattle rancher and I

The Cradle Project is a local event to help raise awareness and funds for the children of Africa. From their website: In Spring of 2008 one thousand cradles and cribs made by artisans from around the world will fill an abandoned warehouse in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  We call this vision The Cradle Project.  The Cradle Project is

I’m not dead on this topic, yet. But I’ll give you an update on the wireless spectrum auction going on in Canada. Right now, $4 Billion CDN worth of licences are pushing forward to allow more competition in the Canadian Wireless Market. Rogers is leading the pack and carries $900 million CDN worth of 53

With the news that Sothebys had guaranteed 78% of the value of its November Contemporary art sale versus just 35% of the same sale last year, many art market observers opined that the auction house was in danger of getting caught up in the euphoria of recent sales results. It’s easy after all, even

“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” Ralph Waldo Emerson   Assume for a moment that emerging artists are akin to value stocks. LIke any true value stock, the work of emerging artists is often overlooked, and their worth and prospects underestimated. However, just as Warren Buffet

We have the pleasure of introducing our newest blog Original Fine Arts Gallery http://www.originalfineartgalleryonline.com/.  It is already filled with exciting stories and photos about art and artists.The intent of this blog is to introduce you to talented emerging artists from around the world, and their artwork. You’ll discover a depth of information about them and their