The Art World and the World Wide Web

Fair Art
A Story by A.M. Homes
Cindy Stubenstock is trading up—at a recent auction, she
flipped two Gursky’s, an early Yuskavage and her husband’s
bonus and was on the phone later live from London topping
the bidding on a rare Picasso etching that looks, “beautiful over
the fireplace.”
“Gives whole new meaning to up in smoke,” the cryptic
British auctioneer mumbled under his breath.
Now Cindy and her Scarsdale sisterhood—aka the ladies
who linger at lunch—are on the tarmac at Teterboro, wandering
from plane to plane.
“There never used to be so many,” one says.
“Do we really need to take two planes?”
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