X Men

Editor's note -- Ringside at 

The New Yorker. Imminent X victory on 

the diagonal.

..............

The New Yorker ‏@NewYorker

Cartoon of the day: 

http://nyr.kr/JrYgG0

Screaming Icon

Editor's note -- Felix Salmon is not impressed. He tweets that Edvard Munch's The Scream got sold in 17 tweets by Art Market. The next day he writes a blog post about the sale called "Art valuation datapoints of the day". 


Salmon said the reason The Scream sold for $120 million is not because it's "Good Art" but because "it's a cultural icon, something instantly recognizable".

"It’s really not all that far from what you find in any art class of tortured adolescents."

felix salmon ‏ @felixsalmon

The Scream gets sold over the course of 17 tweets in 14 minutes from @artmarket. Fun to read the saga.

http://twitgoo.com/5u2w68