In a move meant to help emend US-Cuban relations, a comprehensive group of US artists from New York have opened an exhibition of their work in Havana, Cuba. Titled "Chelsea visits Havana," the exhibit took about two and a half years to organize. It contains a wide variety of art, and is the largest exhibition of US art in Cuba since the momentous revolution of 1959. Sadly, due to continuing travel restrictions, many US artists exhibiting in Havana, including a relative of Yoko Ono, are unable to attend the event. Join discussion...

Although the area of New York known as Chelsea has been snubbed as an art scene in the past, this month it encompasses almost every style of art imaginable. Sa Suk-Won stands out with his regressive Chinese art influences utilized in his chalkboard like paintings. Van de Weghe fine arts gallery boasts a showing of Frank Stella's 60's and 70's canvases. Young artist Paula Wilson debuts with a wide variety of mediums including painting, drawing, relief, and mini mosaics. An established artist, Lisa Sanditz, shows off her city scapes at CRG. The rules in Chelsea are no rules at all, with this months wide showing of different styles, techniques, and medium. Join discussion...

The history of art-market crashes is not a secret, for in the nineties there was the fall of Soho. There are the five theories that make it much harder for the art market to crash in the future. One of these is the expanded art world. The art world is bigger than ever. That’s unquestionable. Depending on which metric you use, the global market is up to twenty times as large as it was in 1990. Another theory is that the art world has gone global. Traditionally, major contemporary-art collectors have come from Western Europe and the United States. Now they come from all over, like Brazil, Mexico and South Korea. Art is the new asset class. Over the past few years, a flurry of articles identified art as a component in every savvy investor’s portfolio. Another theory is having diversification as a safety valve. A more plausible theory—because it does not postulate an endless boom—points to the more diversified market created by a growing number of galleries and collectors and the viability of previously market-marginal art forms such as video and photography. The last crash-proof theory is the Japanese. Last (and certainly least logical), there’s the yellow-fever theory, which cites the irrational buying patterns of Japanese investors as the driving force of the last boom and subsequent bust, after their sudden disappearance owing to Japan’s violent real-estate crash. So now that they’re not behaving like that anymore, the logic goes, the market is safe. Join discussion...