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ChaoticMissAdventures
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This was written in 2008 so it is a bit outdated, but it is a book that gives a lot of thought to art - what is art, making, selling, owning, and value. Much to think about. How does a work become "worth" $12M and what is worth? I found the section on auctioneers most fascinating since I have become interested in Sotheby's auctions. Also found throughout the competition and unity of Sotheby's and Christie's really interesting.

ChaoticMissAdventures It is fascinating to me that someone like Charles Saachi (once a husband of Nigella Lawson) can make and later break a contemporary artist career. Poors like me have probably never heard of him and to know he can buy an artist and that artist work price is driven up and he gets mad at an artist and sells all their work people notice and no one will buy that artist work any longer. 2mo
ChaoticMissAdventures This is a book that the poor need to read with a big disconnect from the idea of money. If you cannot make your mind think of this type of money as Monopoly money this book will just make you so angry that people have this much to throw around you will not be able to read the book through. 2mo
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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Last year started my HUGE crush on Sotheby's auctioneer Phyllis Kao. That has lead me to this tagged book.

She is not featured in it, but it does give a history and look at current look at art houses and sales, it is interesting to think about what is art, even though the idea of this much money makes me sick to my stomach.

marleed Ohhhh, I‘m curious 👀 2mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @marleed honestly the title really got me. 😀 2mo
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IndoorDame
Matisse on Art | Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam
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Eggs Perfection 🤗 6mo
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BekaReid
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“In a painting, I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos....“ -Grace Hartigan

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BekaReid
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“The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.“ - Betty Friedan

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GatheringBooks
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#CoverLove Day 3: #Dots can only mean Yayoi Kusama. Fats reviewed this picturebook biography a few years back - and she included photos from Kusama‘s exhibit in Cleveland Ohio where she lives. 🔴⚫️🔵⚪️ Her feature here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-j8e

BarbaraBB Love some Kusama! I‘ll be visiting her museum later this month 💃 (edited) 9mo
Eggs Love this 🔴⚪️⚫️ 9mo
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LapReader
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Today‘s scores from the Little Free Library on the way to my 3 hrs of ballet. It‘s going to be a lovely day. It‘s warm already. On my walk home I‘ll visit another book swap. Then I have nothing to do for the rest of the weekend but I will grab a chai, go to the beach, drink champagne in my pjs and cook up a storm ready for more work lunches and ballet dinners. I suppose I best do a bit of housework too 😢 eg change the sheets.

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KristiAhlers
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I decided to throw in a nonfiction read about art. I found this one to be a very good read if you're not a well read art nonfiction reader. Plenty of information. I perhaps loved this read due to the fact I've seen many of these artists works and have visited some of the locations that were inspirational for these people.