With colleges and universities touting their science and technology departments over humanities and the arts, a person could forget how much fun living the life of Indiana Jones (Click) can be — minus the poison darts, of course.  But it is possible to live the life if one has

For the very rich, collecting art isn’t for love but for money.  (Blog 2/20/17)  In today’s world, investors are looking for guarantees.   (Blog, 6/20/17)  They want a fixed price for a famous work they put up for sale.  Otherwise, they risk lowering

Tis the season when charities are making a final holiday push for money to fund their causes.  They know how to tug at the heartstrings, but some folks still appear to have money to burn. Recently, I read the auction houses,  Sotheby’s and Christie’s, are offering purses wit

Investing in art in the hope of making a profit is never and idea I’d recommend.  Most of us haven’t enough capital to buy works by artists with a large following, which means our purchases are unlikely to grow in value. Worse, tastes can change over time.  Finding the next Andy

I wonder how long I can go on being amazed at the way our wealthiest citizens collect paintings without regard for whether or not the work and its price have any direct relationship.   How valuable can a canvass covered with paint be?  All things being relative, I admit an object�