Economics Explained
The Economics Of The Art Market: Why This Painting Isn't Worth $450 Million
In 2017, at Christie’s Auction House in New York, a mysterious #Art buyer bid a record-breaking $450 million dollars for the #SalvatorMundi; a painting by the legendary Leonardo da Vinci. News of the staggering purchase price sent...
Weird History
Things You Didn't Know About the Tortured Life of Vincent van Gogh
Although it resulted in some of the most remarkable artwork ever created, the life of Vincent van Gogh was marked by poverty, loneliness, rejection, and mental illness. Vincent van Gogh's biography is sad enough on its own; that his...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Young men from all walks of life are drafted for US military service in 1940
CU Newspaper Extra headline reads: "1st Draft Number 158," tilt up to face of Quang Kwong Foo in California / CU sign reads: "University of San Francisco" / CU draft registration card / MS B Parimann, two uniformed boys pat on his...