It might be financially valuable too, but just because some people happen to own art that is worth more today than what they paid for it does not mean that buying art in order to make money is somehow easy to pull off.
So trying to figure out what you should pay for art is fraught with complications.
What matters is that the art of compromise prevailed for a while in Washington.
All of us have some notion, whether we can articulate it or not, about just what it is that we look for in art that allows us to skip among art forms and genres and over the apparent contradictions in our taste.
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Negotiation is the art of asking for what you want and being willing to make concessions and adjustments in order to achieve the desired result.
By giving promising musicians a platform in his bands, Mr. McBride is doing for younger players what legends like saxophonist Charlie Parker or drummer Art Blakey did for the generation that followed them.
The art market is finally catching up to what scholars and museums have known for years, but, like so many artists, the quality of Ms. Neel's work can be uneven, so choose wisely.
For starters, the art is sometimes housed in what used to be the absurdly rich collector's mansion, which still retains many of the trappings of his or her wealth, occasionally peculiar taste and social-climbing prowess.
As important archives go online and the original works of art remain in zealously protective conditions, the tradeoff for universal accessibility is the loss of this direct contact with the authentic work for the deeply personal and moving experience that is what looking at art will always be about.
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And what measure of the value of art to society do we have except the value society is willing to pay for it?
He said he is more concerned about what the future holds for his children, a 51-year-old art director-turned-roadie and a 49-year-old third-grade teacher.
What I like about some of the big collectors of contemporary art in Florida and California is they erect warehouses for their holdings and welcome public viewing.
Criminals in Dubai are to be locked up in what is being described as five star luxury, according to plans unveiled for a new state of the art prison in the Gulf Emirate.
"One of the things I think he carried over to his art is what initially drew him to writers like Joyce and Shakespeare: a deep interest and concern for the human condition and of human nature, " Mr. Chuang says.
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Pinault is finally getting some attention for what he says is the true love of his life, his vast collection of contemporary art, which until this year he has kept largely hidden from prying eyes.
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Not counted, for instance, are membership dues, such as what one might pay at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on the theory that the member is getting something back for the payment, like reduced admission price.
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The diamond skull has fulfilled its destiny, which is to be a talking point, what used to be miscalled a conversation piece: a way of chattering about art for people who know nothing about it.
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