O/T: Selling off Pop's Collection

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Posted By: cmoking

if they were into baseball cards, we'd all be shut out.

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Posted By: Daniel Bretta

Cmoking your dad was a fantastic artist. I love the paintings with the Coca Cola signs in them.

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Posted By: Rhys

Zach,

If you have to have a degree in Art to formulate a non-ignorant opinion of whether or not you like a piece of art, than the point of creating anything at all is completely worthless. It would be like creating a CD but only allowing people with music degrees to critique or buy it. Art is SUPPOSED to be critiqued by anyone and everyone. People with degrees might have more insight into why things are done certain ways or whatever, but it does not make the layman who looks at a piece and formulates an opinion ignorant.

When I was in law school we read a case about a Klimmt painting and I discovered that I HATE his art. To me it totally sucks and I wouldn't even call it crap, its crap that has been eaten by a dog a re-crapped. This girl sitting next to me ended up buying a Klimmt book and buying a print of his work because she liked it. That is the point, some like it and some do not. I think the artists themselves would shutter to hear anyone say you needed an art degree to formulate an opinion of their works.

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Posted By: barrysloate

I have to say I don't think I could get $22.4 million worth of enjoyment looking at that Rothko. It is rather drab and less than inspiring. It makes you wonder about the relative value of great things. It sold for roughly the entire value of the Halper collection, or the total of two Mastronet auctions, or for my money a mansion in the Hamptons and a pristine brownstone in my Brooklyn neighborhood (with some change left over). Or you could have this rather dull painting. Can anyone explain this one? Is it simply that the person who bought it already had all those other things but he didn't yet have one of these things?

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Posted By: identify7

Sometimes it is time to buy a big diamond. Eventhough it will never leave the secure place where you house it.

How big a diamond should it be?

Well, your brother-in-law bought one last year for 9 mil. And the husband of the girl at the country club just bought his wife ...

Enter: Rothko.

Nobody likes it.

But at 22.4 mil. IT IS RIGHT.

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Posted By: Darren J. Duet

Well said Rhys.

That sure is some expensive crap.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

Different people find different things profound, and there's nothing wrong with that. You look at a painting with your eyes, not someone else's. Enjoying art is a personal act, and there is no requirement that you even share with others what you like or think is dumb. Besides, what is desirable about everyone else finding profound the same stuff as you? Shouldn't you fear that you will some day you will read that Paulie Shore's favorite movie and painting are also yours?

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

David,

Lets make sure the bases are covered. Did you like Bennie Hill or did you just watch it because you were trying to do the "in thing" by enriching yourself with British culture? Don't forget about the "youth in Asia".....

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Posted By: davidcycleback

(I earlier edited my reference to watching Bennie Hill)

I've learned all I know about British culture from their sit coms (including when to say "rotter" and how to chat up a dolly bird), and all about Canadian culture from Red Green (it appears Canadians men like duct tape and are scared of their wives).

My dad met a German who he said, before he come to the US, he learned about American family interaction by watching "Married ... With Children." My dad wasn't certain if he was joking or not.

Talking of like and disliking, it's fair to say about as many women like Red Green as like Bennie Hill. My aunt was not amused when she turned on her TV to watch her weekly BBC Woman Detective Mystery to find out it had been replaced by Red Green.

After her second stroke, my late 80s year old grandmother's favorite tv show became Married With Children. There's a special bond formed when watching Married With Children with your 86 year old grandmother .... She also liked action shows, and one of her best old lady quotes was, "I hate the sex on TV, but I like the violence."

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Posted By: jay behrens

a recent drive-thru conversation at work.

Customer: What is on your chicken club?

Cashier: Lots of blood and feahters. Would you like one?

Customer: Only if I get to hit you with it.

Jay

I'm incompetent at being incontenent.