FRIEZE WEEK CONTEMPORARY AUCTIONS
by Emily Nathan
Thanks to
Occupy Wall Street, people everywhere are turning against the super-rich in a dramatic demonstration of public conscience. The last thing the art world needs, then, is headlines tying it to the oligarchic 1% (whose gut feeling for symbols of sophistication, i.e. artworks, fuels our vigorous art economy). So what the hell is up with
Sotheby's idiotic lock-out of its art handlers union, now entering its third month?
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