The Arts and Crafts Edition
Slate News
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2014
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Host Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org and Jordan Weissmann of Slate discuss art markets rich (Art Basel) and less rich (Etsy), a controversy over Maurice Sendak's estate, and the unfathomable generosity of Slate Money listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Arts and Crafts edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Felix Salmon from Fusion in Miami, where Art Basel Miami Beach is happening right now. And we're going to talk about that |
| 0:24.1 | and the crazy world of high-end contemporary art and all of the madness that is surrounding me right |
| 0:29.5 | here. We will then bring it down a notch and talk about an art market for slightly more normal |
| 0:35.1 | people, Etsy, which is branching out into the wholesale |
| 0:39.0 | business. And we will talk about art in a posthumous sense. What has happened to the estate |
| 0:46.2 | of Morris Sendak. There's a bit of a controversy going on right there. We will also at the end |
| 0:52.6 | to our regular lightning numbers round. And this week, |
| 0:55.8 | I'm going to tell you up front that my number is the amount of money that you guys, |
| 1:01.9 | the Slate Money family, all of us, have managed to raise for Doctors Without Borders. I hope |
| 1:07.2 | you're going to be impressed. It is a large number. I can tell you that right now. |
| 1:12.0 | Anyway, I am joined by regular guest Kathy O'Neill, the data scientist and blogger at mathbabe.org. |
| 1:19.5 | Hello, Kathy. |
| 1:20.1 | Hi, Felix. |
| 1:21.5 | Hello, and Jordan Weissman, the Moneybox columnist for Slake. |
| 1:26.6 | Hello, Felix. |
| 1:27.5 | Hello, Felix. |
| 1:28.9 | Hello, Jordan. |
| 1:31.8 | So anyway, I am, as I say, in Miami. |
| 1:38.9 | I was at Art Basel, Miami Beach this week looking at all of the booths and the art and the... You could smell the money. |
| 1:41.2 | And, of course, I was not really where the action is. The action is all in the |
| 1:46.4 | parties. There was a Miley Cyrus concert on Wednesday. I'm missing my favorite band on Saturday. |
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