The Beginner's Guide to Art Investments

First and foremost, be sure that the art is something that you genuinely enjoy. The price of art is relatively unpredictable and is heavily based on developing trends; there’s no guarantee that it will have appreciated in value (or even maintained its value) over time, so you may be stuck with the piece for the long haul. Another helpful tip is to always learn the artist’s backstory, as it has a fair amount of weight in the resale value of a piece. Those with interesting stories behind their life or how they got into art tend to have higher values on their pieces; knowing the story behind a piece can be a major selling point for collectors.

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I kid thee not...

The theft of the painting was first discovered in late 2002, when the Contemporary Art Museum of Caracas was contacted by a Miami gallery owner saying that someone had offered to sell it to him. 

Experts at the museum inspected the likeness and were shocked to find that it was a fake, and not a very good one, at that. Someone had removed the original painting from its frame and put the fake in its place, leaving it to be exhibited as if it were the real thing. And no one noticed.

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Was the nude too crude for beach?

Here we go again...

HAMPTON — A sand sculpture of a naked woman has some in the Hampton Beach Village Precinct calling on organizers of the popular annual competition to ask master sculptors to use more discretion next year in their artwork.

Resident Tim Jones called the sculpture "pornographic." The event organizer calls it an issue of artistic freedom.

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Anderson sez...

"I push it!"

Airborne

The kid is heading to the Left Coast for a week in San Diego... more later!

Airborne

Heading back home today from Montreal and then heading back out tomorrow morning, this time heading out to the Left Coast (San Diego)...

In Atlanta Airport's cool tunnel of colors between terminals...

Bad taste or offensive?

Ad column in Montreal

I think both...but free countries are free countries for a good set of reasons, some good and some not so easy to understand.