The Lloyd Carr conference press was really emotional. During the Lloyd press conference, Lloyd Carr expressed himself about coaching players. Towards the end of the Lloyd Car press conference he also mentioned that he cried a lot about his decision to quit coaching, but that he remembered the good times and laughed about it. Many will miss Ll

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Although I think Google has been acting a little evil lately, as does Frank Carr, I think some of the effects of the recent PageRank (PR) smackdown are temporary. I've been soaking up information like a sponge, from all kinds of sources.

The PR subject has been beaten to death for nearly two months. Why am I offering more related informat

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I have read a few articles saying that kids of today are not getting the real meaning of Christmas — that they only care about material things and Saint Nicholas, or more popularly known as Santa Claus. I was not convinced.

I just had to laugh at some articles that blame the changing times if kids associate Christmas with material things.

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Another installment of your favorite DVD recommender, this time for DVDs releasing the week of 1/8/08.

There are a bunch of titles coming out, including 9 Blu-Ray and 7 HD-DVD, plys 400+ normal DVDs.

Some of the big ones are Sunshine, 3:10 to Yuma and a two-disc set of Zodiac...

Head on over to A Mike Life to check out what else is a

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This article discusses the current mass exodus of our local information into the so-called data cloud. Many of us don't even realize it's happening. With all the enticing benefits of the tools in the cloud, the move seems inevitible. But who should we trust? Should we even make the move into the cloud or keep our data to ours

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Art Market Blog – How I Doubled My Money Overnight !!! « Art Market Blog with Nicholas Forrest www.artmarketblog.com

Yesterday morning (Wednesday 13th Feb) I visited the 20×200 website which I visit every Wednesday (and Tuesday) because on each of these days of two days every week a ne

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I receive many emails from artist’s asking how they can get noticed by galleries and dealers so I created this post to give artist’s some ideas for ways to promote themselves. The popularity of this post has motivated me to update it regularly as I come across new websites that would be of help to artist’s trying to promote th

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The recent increase in popularity of art investment has given rise to many different art price indexes and databases which are a fantastic resource for art investors and collectors who are looking to gauge value, determine popularity and attempt to predict art market movements and price progression. Below is a list of the top t

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As some of you already know I was asked to give my opinion on the Eli Broad decision to lend his art collection to museums and cultural institutions as opposed to donating the collection. I have included below a link to the story and the interview.

Los Angeles’ new Broad Contemporary Art Museum, funded by real-estate baron E

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Most of you will be aware of the controversy surrounding the Nan Goldin photograph ‘Klara and Edda Belly-Dancing’ which is owned by Elton John and was recently removed from an exhibition by police after complaints were made regarding the sexual nature of the photograph which features two young girls one of whom is sitting down

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Every year in my home town of Sydney, Australia the highly prestigious Archibald Prize for Portraiture is held by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The Archibald prize is awarded to the best portrait, preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics, painted by an artist resident in Austr

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The online fine art sales and art price data website artnet (http://www.artnet.com) has just announced that it will be introducing an online auction service due to start on the 25th of February. According to a press release by artnet “The expensive modus operandi of conventional galleries and auction houses is the reason for hi

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After the high level of interest in my recent post on buying Australian Aboriginal art and considering that Australian Aboriginal art is one of my specialties, I thought that I would go into a little more detail on the subject and share some more of my knowledge and experience. Having spent many years collecting, studying and b

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I recently wrote a post on the increasing interest in Korean art (see here) which proved to be rather popular due to a lack of information available on Korean art so I thought that I would continue on from that post with an analysis of the Korean art market. Having benefited from the explosion of the Chinese economy as well as

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The effect that the condition of an artwork has on its value is something that is very unpredictable and dependant on many different factors. As a general rule you should try and avoid purchasing an artwork that is in poor condition unless the artwork is of significant importance and is worth the considerable cost of restoratio

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