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Yes, he's good at drivingdown

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 08:06:31 +0000

Yes, he's good at drivingdown markets. Saw the Wyeth piece as well - "cute". Prefer the prosthetics stuff - more than just the easy way, you can feel her struggling to make something complete, with impact.

oh and sort of an "on the

artappraiser — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 07:07:07 +0000

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oh and sort of an "on the scene" report on how the political art movement is developing. Some of you might remember me stopping by last year to post the news of this Trump tombstone found in Central Park.

Well, Friday I went to one of the lesser art fairs going on this weekend in NYC, and lo and behold, there it was in a booth rented by a youngish upstart art dealer, along with a few other works by the same artist. And lots of people were stopping to take snapshots of it. I also happened to know the relatively respected Japanese artist who had rented the booth next to him to promote his charity to help children who lives were upset by the Nakashima disaster. (His own work being serious "high art" of the Katayama type.) He was trying to sell some little pieces of precious minimalist type stuff donated by other artists that was priced at like $1,800 or $2,000. He bitterly complained to me that the Trump tombstone was being offered for $138,000 and that the guy would probably get it, and it seemed to aggravate him to no end that everyone was paying attention to the Trump tombstone and nobody was even looking at the stuff he was offering, which he thought both precious and a bargain.

This is actually a very good

artappraiser — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 06:39:38 +0000

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This is actually a very good example of the type of thing that is going on in "high art" world right now, I.E., what's respected by critics and curators.(And I mean real curators, not as used as one of the most popular verbs of the day, where everyone "curates" everything, including like sandwiches and Meetup.com groups.

I will throw in the type of thing that's going in "low art" world. Just cause I don't feel lt appropriate to start a new post, just cause some might enjoy:

The Artist Who Put Kellyanne Conway in an Andrew Wyeth Painting