Penny Starr, the conservative writer and activist who led the (successful) crusade to censor David Wojnarowicz’s video A Fire in My Belly (1987) at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., is back with a new outrage.
Art-market analysts have been aflutter since news hit that two Chinese artists, Zhang Daqian and Qi Bashi, took over the top auction-earner spots last year -- beating out former titleholders Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol.
Early in 2011, curator and video-game collector Chris Melissinos invited the public -- a passionate 119,000 gamers from 175 countries -- to nominate their favorite video games in history from a list of 240 examples.
