links for 2008-08-25

• A disclosure of White Cube’s unsold Damien Hirst inventory before the artist’s controversial September 15th direct sale by Sotheby’s | AO Art Observed™
  The Art Newspaper has this weekend disclosed the extent of unsold inventory, over 200 works, that are held at Damien Hirst’s gallery in London, White Cube, run by Jay Jopling. The article illuminates a situation for the artist, one of the most successful in the world, but also one of the most prolific, in which his traditional market may be less able to absorb the works at the pace at which he is aiming to produce them.
  (tags: art collecting business)
• Gerd Arntz Web Archive
  (tags: typography history design infographics ilustration)
• BURAK ARIKAN
  Yummy infographics.
  (tags: design nyc infographics blogs)
• How To Win › with Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert
  “How to Win” is a work in progress by Stephen Duncombe, an academic, and Steve Lambert, an artist. We are both long-time political activists and both of us believe that using art and culture to transform the world is a good idea. But we are both haunted by the same question: How do we gauge the success of our projects? Hell, how do we even think about success when our goal is utopia?
  (tags: politics culture art blogs activism)