Auction bidder was obviously aiming for record, not painting
(NEWSER) - For the most expensive work of art ever bought at auction, Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" is seriously underwhelming, Blake Gopnik argues, making it painfully obvious that the $106.5 million bid at Christie's Tuesday night was a stunt designed to grab the record. Which is not just crass, she writes in the Washington Post, but depressing—so much cash tied up in something with so little social or cultural value. More»