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...plans on the big domestic-policy issues - health care and energy - have been courageous and detailed, more sophisticated than her opponents' - and very, very smart politically. Just before our interview, Clinton gave a speech launching her energy-independence proposal. It would drastically reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by auctioning off permits to pollute and is similar to Obama's - but Obama has added a fillip of honesty by telling his audiences that the program might result in higher energy prices. I asked Clinton why she hadn't been similarly honest, and she immediately turned it around: Obama wanted to spend...
Banksy lurks in the shadows, outside the klieg lights of the celebrity he's generated. He shrinks from cameras like a vampire from the sun. The graffiti artist, whose work has fetched millions of dollars at auction houses from the likes of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, has never been publicly identified...
...signs reading: "I Don't Believe in Anything. I'm Just Here For The Violence." Banksy specializes in a strange brand of self-promotion: he'll sell six-figure creations and then sermonize on the evils of consumerism. Such behavior doesn't seem to deter buyers. In April, the auction house Bonham's sold his Space and Bird, a spray-painting on steel, for almost $600,000, and recently a set of 10 of his works went for more than $1 million...
...hard to survive in, and I really admire and support these people who stay true to what they want to do and don’t go into some alternative career,” Parent says.Many of the Parsons designers’ collections will be included in a charity auction that will follow the show. Proceeds from the auction will go to the Confucius Foundation, which provides scholarships to child laborers working in sweatshops that produce fake luxury goods and allow them to attend school.“Not only are we helping to give children an education...
...painter were rekindled last year when an Indian newsweekly published an advertisement featuring a Husain painting in which a naked representation of mother India draped herself across a map of the country. Husain was promptly charged with "hurting the sentiments of Hindus." In response, he withdrew the painting from auction and now lives in self-imposed exile in Dubai and London...