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Most freelancers hate dealing with pricing. We would rather focus on what we do best, and as a result, pricing sometimes doesn’t get enough thought and attention. Pricing obviously has a huge impact on how much money we make, but what about its affec

Did you knwo that there was a tornado go through Brooklyn New York? There has been very many new and unusal weather habits going on these days. In one day the US saw twenty five tornados rip through most out the country. The weather patterns have been changing alot through out the years and it seems to only be getting worse. ...

PITTSBURG, PA - Last month, visitors to the opening reception of the exhibition "Inner Outer Space" at the Mattress Factory couldn't help but stare at the floor in a room on the fourth floor. For, cut into it was a 6-foot-wide hole. Looking down the hole, which is actually an artwork by New York City-based artist Sarah Oppenheimer, all one could ...

HOLLYWOOD , CA- Once upon a time, in a fashion industry far far away, celebrities weren't designers. Designers were designers. These days, the title may as well be included in a swag bag and distributed at VIP lounges in Hollywood. Among the most recent stars to hyphenate their credits are Ashlee Simpson, who has designed a line of tees for Wet ...

I recently received a book from Chronicle Books on product design - an area of my profession with which I'm not too familiar. I have to admit that my first impression was, "Oh boy, another book crammed with photos of off-the-wall or otherwise unusable 'products' that only a few pretentious people can afford to have." Kind of harsh, I know. I ...

The giallo genre, named after lurid pulp novels popular in Italy, spawned some of the most inventive, audacious films of the seventies

NEW YORK: A collection of original art by noted psychedelic artists, depicting some of the biggest names in rock 'n' roll, is going on the auction block Wednesday.

ON THE face of it, the art market is still booming—in spite of the credit crunch and fears of a recession. On May 14th a Francis Bacon triptych (above) sold for $86.3m, the highest price ever paid publicly for work by the artist, at an evening auction o

Institution says restitution laws don’t apply as it is a private gallery

Farhad Moshiri is the first Middle Eastern contemporary artist whose work has sold for over $1m. Here he discusses the state of the art market, his commercial success, and what it’s like to work in Iran

Economic Flash Points of the Past Century Crashes and stagflation and bear markets - oh my! Bankrupt investor Walter Thornton tries to sell his luxury roadster for $100 cash on the streets of New York, October 30, 1929. (Corbis Bettmann

A nightmarish painting by Francis Bacon has become the most expensive work of contemporary art sold at auction, only a day after sales records were broken by the late painter’s friend, Lucian Freud.