My jaw is still dragging on the floor from when Andreas Gursky’s supersized, 1999 photograph of bargain-store shelves sold for $2.2 million at Sotheby’s this May. Why would anyone nearly quadruple his record price ($611,000) from only four years ago? Call me a fuddy duddy, but I’m thinking that the dust of art history hasn’t […]

If toy bears could talk, Elvis Presley’s beloved teddy, a 1909 Steiff named Mabel, would have a gut-ripping tale to tell. And if they could sing, her theme song might be “You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog … and you ain’t no friend of mine.”
In case you hadn’t heard, Mabel had a […]