| So, here are some answers! Keep them coming for next week via our Bloomberg Pursuits Instagram and e-mail. Choose my fall reading list for me! So, first of all, I sort of did in our fall preview. But second, because I write for a news company, recommendations on our lists are all new books—I don't think anyone's coming to Bloomberg News looking for a hot take on Lost Illusions, no matter how passionately I'd like to give it.  I included Paradise Bronx in my August culture list, along with The Hypocrite and Oh, Mary! Source: Vendor So unless you're desperate to keep up with contemporary literary fiction (and honestly … there are better things to worry about), I'd take any and all new book lists with a grain of salt and perhaps also consider those of an earlier vintage. And when you do, I am more than happy to weigh in. Another piece of slightly unsolicited advice: I have never understood people who force themselves to finish books they're ostensibly reading for pleasure. There are a lot of wonderful books in the world—if whatever you're reading feels like a chore, put it down and find another. Where do you fall on phones in museums? Some six years ago I wrote about the phenomenon, framing it as a fairly new concept to be grappled with. I was younger and apparently more forgiving when I noted that while I disliked being around that many phones, "my way of engaging with the art is no better or worse than anyone else." Times have changed.  The Venice Biennale is still going. Here, photographs by Sugimoto echo the palazzo's ceiling at Berggruen Arts & Culture. Source: Massimo Pistore/Courtesy of Sugimoto Studio and Berggruen Arts & Culture I really, really don't like dodging around outstretched phones to get close to an artwork. I also don't like that people now feel entitled to ask other people to move out of their "shot." And I hate when people stick their phones in front of me while I'm looking at something in order to get an unobstructed image. I get it: You want to tell people that you've been to a museum, and the best way to do so is to post a picture of an artwork from that museum to social media. I understand the impulse, and have absolutely done the same thing. But because I'm hypersensitive to the phenomenon now, I cannot help noticing that many people have a tendency to take pictures of Every. Single. Artwork. They. See. It's almost as if the only way they can engage with an artwork is to stare at it on their phone. Want to prove me wrong? Keep your phone in your pocket. Please? Is the art market coming back this fall? I hope so, for artists' and galleries' sakes! And auction houses too, I guess.  There's a lot of auction news, even if there are fewer auction records. Photographer: Cindy Ord/Getty Images North America The art market has been in a slump for quite a while now. Participants have furnished a lot of very good reasons for its decline—everything from the commercial real estate crisis to high borrowing costs to art fair fatigue to unsustainable primary market price inflation to simple boredom—but it's not clear to me what will bring it back to life. One thing we know won't move the needle is a booming stock market. If I were to guess, I'd say the market gets its groove back with a new group of artists doing something that feels fresh. Will it happen this fall? Follow our coverage to find out. | 
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