Weekend Links

I am slowly getting back to regular programming. The pic below I found via Otis & Frank, a blog well worth the visit. I only wish I could live near a bamboo forest like this then I would be much happier. As you can probably guess I have yet to make peace with the beginning of winter, hence my tendency to post all things green lately. Somehow, I don't think even retail therapy will help at this point. One must simply endure the cold.

 

Anger at Walmart heiress's $1.4bn gallery as art market becomes focus for protests (The Guardian)

Carine Roitfeld, ex-Vogue editor: 'Never ever share your daughter's wardrobe' (The Guardian)

This column will change your life: burning bridges: Could Bernie Madoff have an insight worth mulling? (The Guardian)

Asda wagyu beef: raising the steaks? (The Guardian)

2021: The New Europe (Wall Street Journal)

Book Review: ‘The Angel Esmeralda’ by Don DeLillo (NYT)

Book Review: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (NYT)

Book Review: Back to Work by Bill Clinton (NYT)

Jim O'Neill: China could overtake US economy by 2027 (The Telegraph)

Books of the Year 2011: Fiction and Books of the Year 2011 (The Telegraph)

The Art Market: Financial Machinations at auctions (Prospero) 

Yoko Ono's "Uncursed" opens in New York (Vogue)

Germany Broke the Euro, Now It Has to Fix It (Foreign Affairs)