In short, when the dollar is in decline limited capital tends to flow toward hard assets such as gold, land and rare art that already exist, and away from the stock and bond income streams that will fund the creation of wealth that doesn't yet exist.
Luxury jewelry designers, many who specialize in one-of-a-kind pieces, will be participating from more than eight countries, including Italy, Spain, Philippines, Lebanon, Australia, Brazil, Germany and the U.S. The show is expected to attract the same type of collectors who attend Art Basel and are interested in rare pieces of wearable art.
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There was a rich and mature complexity to its palate that made it that rare work of art that can be enjoyed and experienced.
Instead, they seek hedges against the very devaluation sought by monetarists which is most often investment in the wealth of yesterday: think land, commodities, rare stamps, art, etc.
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Worse, with consumer prices sticky in concert with commodity prices that are most sensitive to dollar-price movements, the beneficiaries of the money illusion tend to be the hard, unproductive assets of yesterday (think housing, art, rare stamps, and oil) that are least vulnerable to currency weakness, and which in fact do best when the unit of account is devalued.
He is drenched in art theory of every kind but writes on aesthetics with analytical clarity and dry humour rare qualities in smart new-art publications.
And these children were seen as something very special and something very rare in Raphael's art.
Flipping art for a quick profit is nothing new, but it's rare in the staid market of 19th century European academic art.
The Austin Art Museum represents a rare opportunity for Richard Gluckman of the New York firm Gluckman Mayner the chance to design his first free-standing museum in America.
The collection spans a range of styles and eras, including old master paintings and drawings, rare works by impressionist greats, African art and more.
The Barnes's quirky magnificence is increasingly rare in today's corporatized and homogenized art world.
Rare are the places where one can experience the art in l'art de vivre.
The creative search may be endless, but in those rare moments when the artist finds what he is seeking, art can have the same power as love.
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On Tuesday, the rare material will finally be released on "Bill Evans Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate" (Resonance) a two-CD set that rivals Evans's revered Village Vanguard recordings for Riverside in June '61.
Beijing is also obtaining colonial-style control of energy and other natural resources (including, notably some 98% of the world's exports of rare earth minerals that are indispensable for state-of-the-art manufacturing for a host of commercial and military purposes).
Each Masterpiece is handcrafted over a period of at least two years, working from an original sketch and a wax mold and with rare, fine gemstones, which ultimately forges the three-dimensional works of art.
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Lord Inglewood, of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA), called it "a rare survivor".
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