Marilyn Minter is on a high, you would have thought. She was recently honored by Aspen non-profit Anderson Ranch, and a new documentary titled Pretty Dirty celebrates her life and edgy art.

In Aspen, there was a bidding war for Minter’s commissioned portrait, and when two collectors reached a stalemate, she offered one to each of them.

But not everything is rosy. “I’m doing okay,” she told the newsletter Puck. “But I’m not making money.”

She called the downturn in the market over the past two years “an apocalypse right now,” revealing that she had dropped her prices by 20%.

“Whenever I do a shoot for commercial reasons, I piggyback.” Pointing to the paintings in her New York studio, she said: “Most things in this room were rip-offs of that shoot.”

The amount film critic Gene Siskel recalled paying in the late 1970s for the wide-lapel, three-piece suit that John Travolta wore as Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever. Now, the all-white outfit is back on sale at Propstore in LA on August 26 with an estimate of $200,000 to $400,000.

John Galliano will become only the third living fashion designer honored by New York's Costume Institute at the Met and the second St. Martin’s School of Art graduate.

Galliano follows in the footsteps of British designer Alexander McQueen, who did not live to enjoy the success of the show Savage Beauty. The blockbuster in 2011, the eighth most visited exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s history, drew more than 661,000 visitors and sold 100,000 catalogs.

Come next spring, Galliano joins Yves Saint Laurent and Rei Kawakubo, who were alive when the institute celebrated their work.

The exhibition curated by Andrew Bolton will chart Galliano's rise, fall, and redemption.

He took the fashion world by storm with his sellout graduate collection Les Incroyables in 1984 and the Met has one of the flamboyant outfits in its collection. In 1995, Galliano became the first British designer to lead a major French couture house when he joined Givenchy before achieving even greater success at Christian Dior. But his career came to an abrupt halt after he was detained by police for an antisemitic rant in a Paris bar-café: an outburst for which he later apologized.

"The exhibition... considers both how Galliano has remapped the world through fashion and how his conduct, its consequences, and changing cultural values have reshaped our understanding of his work," Bolton said in a statement.

Curator Marcus Lobbes was booed on stage at Bayreuth in Germany on Saturday night when some Wagner fans were less than impressed by his AI-assisted digital backdrop for a performance of Götterdämmerung.

The conductor, singers, and musicians were applauded, however, German news agency DPA reports.

Described as an “image-generating force,” the digital collage accompanying Wagner's opera was devised by Lobbes, the director of the Academy for Theatre and Digitality in Dortmund, and Nils Corte. It features a kaleidoscope of images, including the September 11 attacks and former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, leaving many members of the audience bemused.

Two further performances of the fourth and final full-length opera in Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung are planned to mark 150th anniversary of the Bayreuth Festival.

1 - Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo's Turin-based foundation has been officially recognized by Italy as a leading institution for contemporary art, achieving museum status.

2 - Conrad Shawcross has joined astronomers concerned about the future of Jodrell Bank Observatory after a funding cut. The UNESCO World Heritage Site near Manchester in northwest England is home to the UK's largest telescope, which played a key role in the space race during the Cold War.

3 - The Swiss dealer and former freeport "king", Yves Bouvier, has asked a judge in New York to compel Sotheby's to turn over records relating to the private sale of a Picasso painting, saying the documents are needed for a criminal case he recently launched in France against dealer Antoine Peretti.

4 - The Brazilian mining entrepreneur Bernardo Paz is developing a 311-acre institution for his collection and commissioned works next to Inhotim, the ranch he transformed into an outdoor museum with monumental works before losing control of it.