PERIPHERAL VISION

Somehow Picasso paying restaurant bills by sketching on menus seems a lot more palatable than the current craze for artists’ “peripheral works” – like the inky faxed pages of David Hockney’s works that sold for $17,000 last year. Now snapshots from a roll of film taken by Hockney are going on sale next week and they’re “being hyped as a potential investment.” – The Age (Melbourne)