The Museum Bubble
Almost everyone admits that there was an "art bubble." People admitted it as it was happening.However, most of us are probably still coming to grips with the fact that there was a "museum bubble" as well.Almost every week brings fresh news of museum cuts. By now the template is established -- layoffs, hiring freezes and unpaid furloughs or pay cuts for those left. Let it never be said that the art world didn’t contribute to wage deflation.Many of these announcements have been accompanied by symbolic mandates that those at the top will take more of a hit, salary-wise, than the foot soldiers. James M. Williams, t

Art and Hypochondria
James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Marcel Proust, and Andy Warhol - what do they all have in common? They were all hypochondriacs. Brian Dillon examines the relationship between creativity, illness and the imagination."A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is itself a sort of treatise on hypochondria and its artistic uses. Proust, it seems, was well aware of the contemporary explanation for hypochondria - it was thought at the turn of the century to be a disorder of the "common sense" or "coenaesthetic" faculty, by which we apprehend the evidence of ou