Word: collectors
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...late industrialist Solomon R. Guggenheim's foundation include "the promotion and encouragement of art and education in art and the enlightenment of the public," it's also rewarding to note the nuances in the show: how a handful of works can carry the quirky spirit of their original collector; how personal taste can determine the path of art history. Seen in this light, Standing Woman is not only one of the most refined examples of Giacometti's attempts to sculpt mankind's "lightness" of being. Says Peggy Guggenheim Collection director Philip Rylands: "He also represents Peggy's enabling capacity...
...soaring value of contemporary Chinese and Vietnamese art has been one of the art world's most widely documented phenomena of recent years. But if you're a would-be collector who feels priced out of the market, is there anywhere else to look? Try Indonesia. The archipelago's artists represent extraordinary value in comparison to the record-breaking sums trading hands at Asian art auctions these days. And they're talented too. "Contemporary Indonesian art is now on the map," says Deborah Iskandar, Christie's representative in Indonesia...
...selling in the hundreds of thousands of dollars-but that, say experts, is the point. "Now is the time to jump in," suggests Iskandar from Christie's. "Indonesian art is so cheap you can't lose on it." It's the kind of advice any collector loves to hear...
...because, really, it's what everyone is up to upon hearing that he's a water sommelier--Mascha immediately tried to disarm me. He told me about his Ph.D. from the University of Vienna, where he specialized in food anthropology. And about how he was a wine collector until he found out in 2002 that he had an alcohol allergy that could stop his heart, at which point he transferred his interest to water. I felt sorry but unmoved. Just because being married means staying home and watching TV on Saturdays doesn't mean there are good shows on Saturdays...
...PLAYED MANY roles in Hollywood, but Elizabeth Taylor's latest drama played out in a U.S. court of appeals, which ruled that the actress, an avid art collector, could keep a Vincent van Gogh painting. In 2004 a family sued Taylor, claiming that View of the Asylum and Chapel at Saint-Rémy had been confiscated by the Nazis from their ancestor, who fled Germany in 1939. Taylor insisted the work had passed through two Jewish art dealers without any sign of coercion before she paid $257,000 for it at a 1963 Sotheby's auction...