The truth is that while I love museums and galleries (and I buy all of my art from great galleries in NYC and around the world and spot talents on the rise in museum shows), the whole concept of just seeing a piece of art hanging on a white wall seemed too out of touch from my reality.

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In Thailand, every three months a rotation of local artists mix their canvases with a vast 4, 000-piece collection of contemporary Thai art hanging at the luxury Siam Kempinski Hotel Bangkok.

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Previous years have seen Cirque du Soleil-style acrobats hanging from the rafters of the library's basement, a 12-piece orchestra playing songs popular during Prohibition and five old-school barbers in a pop-up grooming shop to freshen up any scraggly-bearded gentlemen, gratis, on the spot.

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