Friday, September 14, 2007

A Small Reminder

This is why we hate the rich. Fuck 'em.

From the Wall Street Journal:
In a collision of the art boom, the wealth boom and the Baby Einstein approach to parenting, galleries and auction houses around the country report that children who aren't old enough to drive are building collections that include works by Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Camille Pissarro and Rembrandt. At Sotheby's in New York, an 11-year-old boy with blond ringlets waved a paddle last fall and successfully bid $352,000 for a Jeff Koons sculpture of a silver gnome. Some teenagers are flipping art for quick profits. A few grade-schoolers are even loaning works to major museums, including Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, a coup for a collector of any age.

1 comment:

wobblie said...

"But Daddy, I want an Andy Warhol Oompah Loompah painting NOW!" - an updated Veruca Salt.