Reposting this from another list (thanks to Werner Von Delmont for the info digging!). Comments follow...

source http://www.artmarketmonitor.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/business/08larry.html?_r=1

Great to see the heads of mega banks fulminating against fiction and innuendo as a 'careless talk costs banks' ethos is pounded into their employees and rivals are threatened with retaliation for daring to speculate (ahem) on their illiquidity... a bit like the last season of The Wire, which is looking mighty prophetic in its articulation of the relations between lies, non-reproduction and the (more or less open) collapse of once 'great' institutions.

Signs of Life offers one of the first surveys of the emerging field of ‘bioart’. But, writes Betti Marenko, this book often reveals an art genre in danger of providing biotech with its ultimate PR tool, instead of the critique its production of new economically driven life forms so urgently requires