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...Every collector has a story. Mine begins in the stone age. No, not that Stone Age. My personal stone age. For a couple of years in grade school I collected minerals. Granite, pyrite, rose quartz - all of them were hunted down in the wild or purchased at hobby shops, glued onto cardboard supports and lovingly mounted in "presentation boxes," which were presented to no one because no one else was really that interested. But I was. By the time I reached the age of 10, what I didn't know about feldspar was not worth knowing...
...record show that it was a clever marketing ploy for Criterion to number its releases, with the number printed on the spine of the packaging. That lets you know, when you look at your collection lined up on a shelf, where the gaps are. The dedicated collector will feel these gaps like they were missing bicuspids. This plays to his or her worst pathologies and has probably boosted Criterion's profit margins by a healthy amount every year...
...University has learned that it wasn’t the only victim of theft whose artwork ended up at an estate auction earlier this month. Several other objects left by the late New York art collector William M.V. Kingsland—including a bust by surrealist painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti—have been confirmed stolen, The New York Times reported yesterday...
...Size of two tears casino mogul Steve Wynn made in Pablo Picasso's Le Rêve when he accidentally elbowed the canvas $139 million Price for which Wynn had agreed to sell Le Rêve to a Connecticut collector, which would have been the most ever paid for a painting. Wynn now plans to keep the piece after it is restored
...million Price for which Wynn had agreed to sell Le Rêve to a Connecticut collector, which would have been the most ever paid for a painting. Wynn now plans to keep the piece after it is restored...