Beauty as Commodity
Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust sold for $106.5 million at a Christie’s auction earlier this month. Amid the outrage, Denis Dutton asks an eminently reasonable question: “Why is paying $100 million for an ugly downtown office building acceptable, while the same sum paid for an object of enduring beauty is a scandal?”
More at the New York Times‘ Room for Debate blog.
posted by Aaron Bragg
May 24, 2010
And it’s only about four times Gisele’s annual income.
http://omg.yahoo.com/news/gisele-bundchen-worlds-top-paid-model/40874