Next year Sands plans to unveil glasses with detachable art -- stuff that comes off the frame and turns into pendants and lockets.

FORBES: Vanity fare

Between the popcorn flicks and the kiddie stuff and the art films that need to open before December 31 to qualify for the Oscars, it's madness, I tell you, madness.

NPR: Movie Madness (Some of it Genius) for the Holidays

While museums, auctions, galleries, studios and international fairs are more integral to the art world, Miami Art Basel has become an annual touchpoint for talking about art to big audiences and for art collectors to strut their stuff.

FORBES: The Six Stages Of Miami Art Basel

This is not, by the way, the stuff of mass market art stores or Internet megamarkets, but rather, presentations from major galleries in the US and Europe.

FORBES: Connect

Truly getting to the good stuff has required a mix of art and science.

FORBES: The New Rules Of Engagement

There is some art-world satire, which is gross knockabout stuff, and lists of the best names to drop frequently occupy up to half a page of unredeemed showing-off.

ECONOMIST: Fiction from Australia

The legal tussles between Apple and Samsung have previously placed a spotlight on stuff like 2001: A Space Odyssey by way of prior art.

ENGADGET: Google Patents search gets upgrade, now filled with prior art and European patent goodness

This is the kind of stuff I'm drawing, this is what I am thinking about when I am making art.

WSJ: Reformed Bad-Girl Artist Tracey Emin