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There’s an Art Show Aboard a 236-Foot Yacht With Marina Abramović

There’s an Art Show Aboard a 236-Foot Yacht With Marina Abramović

If, unfortunate reader, you’re licking your wounds after being outbid on the $181.2 million Jackson Pollock at the New York auctions last month, take heart: you, too, can still buy access to art that will be seen only by the world’s precious few wealthiest. That’s because now there is a hyper-exclusive, “museum-grade” art show aboard a 236-foot “superyacht,” and you may yet be able to reserve a suite there. In its maiden voyage, the Floating Art Hotel has taken to Monaco Bay, where it is currently anchored facing the famed Monte-Carlo casino (frequented by the likes of James Bond) for the duration (through June 8) of the Grand Prix Formula 1 motor race, the most prestigious such race in the world. Source link

Should You Buy a Newspaper or a Yacht?

Should You Buy a Newspaper or a Yacht?

CONFIDENTIAL: To a billionaire trying to determine what to do with $250 million in 2013, That kind of pocket change can buy you a newspaper. And not just any newspaper, but a world-class paper with a wall full of Pulitzers (I remember emerging from the elevator and marveling at it as a summer intern) and decades of experience holding power to account. Alternatively, $250 million can buy half a superyacht. A yacht is a very big boat. That newspaper employs hundreds of journalists. These journalists work very hard to find out what is actually happening and then to tell people. This involves a lot of late nights eating pizza in the office and long days calling people who will not answer and showing up in inconvenient places at inconvenient times to get people on the record and to get the story right. Is newspaper work glamorous? Put it this way: Spotlight was a Hollywood movie made exclusively to show off how heroic newspaper journalism is, and The New York Times ran an interview with the …