Most Expensive Art
The BBC has gone ape on art since it teamed up with the Public Catalogue Foundation for the Your Paintings project (CLICK). Not only is BBC1 showing Fake or Fortune? at 7pm this evening, but also it's bringing us The World's Most Expensive Paintings at 9pm (title link). Art critic Alastair Sooke tracks down the ten most expensive paintings to sell at auction and asks why rich collectors pay such insane prices. The answer has already been provided by Zero Mostel in The Producers (1968): "Flaunt it while you've got it." Above is Picasso's Garçon à la Pipe (1905), which sold at Sotheby's in New York for £58m ($104m) in 2004. The buyer was anonymous. The whereabouts of the painting is unknown!
posted by Unknown @ 10.7.11
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At least you have shows on art, because across the pond it is assumed we are only smart enough to watch "reality tv."
Hi, Todd
Oh poor you. And all those channels to choose from. Reality TV shows are a cheap way to fill the schedules. We get them too.
But you do have the best cop shows. I'm hooked on CSI, NCIS, Law and Order, The Mentalist and The Shield. Makes a change from watching art shows!
The art shows I've blogged about are repeated on BBC iPlayer, but for copyright reasons they may only be available in the UK. Worth a try though. Follow my links, especially to Fake or Fortune?
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