“These days, newish art can be priced between $10, 000 and $25, 000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1, 200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.”
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Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.
The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.
Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.
