The Flaneur
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
My Global Hustle
Petal to Petal Save the Date – AUGUST 8TH, 2011
Dear Friends,
Â
Please Save the Date! On Monday, August 8th Petals-N-Belles is having an after work summer fundraiser event at The Hotel Chantelle Rooftop, between 7-10pm!  Come out and mingle with executives, young professionals, trendsetters and entrepreneurs in the art, education, philanthropic, film, music, media, fashion, finance and advertising industries.
Â
Give us the opportunity to tell you about our amazing members, the progress we have made and ways you can get involved. Entry to the event is FREE and we have a wonderful evening in store.
Â
Please RSVP at RSVP@petalsnbelles.org. Attending this event will allow you to make an impact in the lives of 24 awesome young ladies! More Details to Come.
Â
SAVEÂ THE DATE!
Â
Petals-N-Belles, Inc. Presents:
Â
Petal to Petal
An Intimate Summer Fundraiser/
One Petal for Love, Two Petals for Change
Â
Monday August 8thst, 2011
Hotel Chantelle Rooftop
92 ludlow Street NYC
7-10PM
Â
RSVP at RSVP@petalsnbelles.orgÂ
See YOU There!Â
Â
Â
Â
We’re all marketers now
For the past decade, marketers have been adjusting to a new era of deep customer engagement. They’ve tacked on new functions, such as social-media management; altered processes to better integrate advertising campaigns online, on television, and in print; and added staff with Web expertise to manage the explosion of digital customer data. Yet in our experience, that’s not enough. To truly engage customers for whom “push†advertising is increasingly irrelevant, companies must do more outside the confines of the traditional marketing organization. At the end of the day, customers no longer separate marketing from the product—it is the product. They don’t separate marketing from their in-store or online experience—it is the experience. In the era of engagement, marketing is the company.
The battle for London’s African heart
If you wished to savour the full extent of black culture in London today, you might head east to Dalston to eat Ghanaian kenke, south to Brixton market to fill your fridge with ingredients for an egusi sauce, then north again to Walthamstow for a dose of fire and brimstone at a Nigerian church that boasts the single largest congregation in London. Or you might sink a quick Primus beer in Tottenham at the Congolese dive Papa Mapasa, before heading south to hear visiting African politicians at the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House. With luck, you might catch an African bandÂ
performing at the Barbican, in the City, before close of play.
The wild, wild world of the Chinese contemporary-art market
Really good article in the new issue of the Economist about the evolution of the Chinese art market. Check it out. -YG (@youngglobal)
———————————————————
BUYING Chinese contemporary art is not for the faint-hearted. There are no museums in China to offer the validation that contemporary-art collectors in the West desire, and few independent critics or curators to judge whether a living artist’s work is good enough to stand the test of time. Yet that is not putting off buyers. Last year Asia accounted for nearly a quarter of global auction revenue, nearly twice what it was two years ago. Some of this can be explained by sales of wine and watches, which have a growing following among the Chinese, but the lion’s share is made up of art. Among the ten most expensive artists working today, two are Chinese—Zeng Fanzhi and Cai Guo-Qiang. Yet the Chinese contemporary-art market is extremely volatile, bidding at auctions in mainland China is often rigged and galleries follow the auction houses’ lead on prices far more than they do in the West. So how does the neophyte collector find his or her way through this jungle?
