Art vs Unemployment

[SpiderChrist]

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/sep/20/royal-academys-cruel-dilemma-sell-a-michelangelo-or-lose-150-jobs

How is this even a fucking debate? You're sitting on a single asset worth £100m but you have to consider whether to sell it to save people's jobs.

I fucking give up. Stick a knife into my temple and turf me into a ditch. I don't want to live in a world like this anymore.

[Fr.Bigley]

"Cruel Dilema"- Is it? "Sorry steve, I know your mortgage is due and you'll probably lose everything once you're forced onto the dole but this is a nice picture, and you're not a celebrated polymath are you? just got an M.A in art at bradford polytechnic.....you see?"


Fuck this all man, fuck it all.

[idunnosomename]

well. it would have an export ban placed on it, and there'd be a public campaign to buy it for the nation before it went in some oligarch or sultan's vault. partly the art fund would kick in I guess. it would be a bit of a shitshow.

if another museum like the V&A had money to give i'd be all for it (since it is an oldball in their collection, and the Leonardo Cartoon having gone to the NG from them too), but putting it on the open market isn't really a solution imo.

[idunnosomename]

"Cruel Dilema"- Is it? "Sorry steve, I know your mortgage is due and you'll probably lose everything once you're forced onto the dole but this is a nice picture

Michaelenangelo is not a painter, he is a sculpture.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Presumably 100m saves a lot more than than 150 jobs.


JUST MAKE MORE ART

[Bazooka]

Michaelenangelo is not a painter, he is a sculpture.

I think you'll find its a cheese.

[Voltan (Man of Steel)]

And a tortoise.

[idunnosomename]

peodos in a house shell

[Butchers Blind]

Make forgeries and keep selling them for £100m. 

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

peodos in a house shell

I enjoyed this

[H-O-W-L]

sweet shop HAHAA

[The Mollusk]

Oh no. That poor art.

[thenoise]

Make forgeries and keep selling them for £100m.

Or make postcards of it and sell 100m of them.

[Butchers Blind]

Or make postcards of it and sell 100m of them.

Keep the painting and put their employees up for auction.

[idunnosomename]

LOOK IT ISNT A PAINTING

HERE IT IS



WHAT D'YA RECKON CAB? OUTTA 10?

[TheBrownBottle]

LOOK IT ISNT A PAINTING

HERE IT IS



WHAT D'YA RECKON CAB? OUTTA 10?

Needs one of those Viz Sunday Supplement pisstakes.  Or even a place in 'Up the Arse Corner'

[Tony Tony Tony]

WHAT D'YA RECKON CAB? OUTTA 10?

"Oi'll give it foive"

[idunnosomename]

cunt couldnt even finish it. but he could do the baby's cock and balls to a high degree. what a dirty, stinking old fucker mikey was

[Rizla]

I can sympathise, like, I've got an original early 70s Dallas Arbiter fuzzface pedal in a box somewhere that's worth a grand, and every so often I think "should maybe sell that, feed the kids n that" but then I wouldn't have the pedal. It's even the same shape as the michaelangelo thing too. It's a hard one.

[imitationleather]

It looks like a really sophisticated e.

[Astronaut Omens]

UK police have issued a warning to drug users after intercepting a "dangerous" batch of MDMA pills shaped like timeless Renaissance masterpieces.

[Astronaut Omens]

The Malcolm Gladwell podcast mentioned in the article, about the enormous amounts of  valuable artwork that financially struggling galleries keep unseen and locked away in their vaults, and the reasons for this mad case of affairs is a really enjoyable listen:

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/42-dragon-psychology-101

In a way, there are some echoes in it with Rizla's point above, the obsessive and endless acquisition and hoarding of valuable artworks that art curators and gallery managers take part in seems to me like a really extreme version of a collector tendency, an inability to let go of things, that is actually pretty common and a lot of people wrestle with, and some people actually relish.But wheras most people would have a sense, when they run out of shelf and floor space, that their book collection or record collection or taxidermised animal collection or whatever is getting out of hand, people who run galleries are actually encouraged to just buy and buy and buy in the name of civilisation, cultural curation and other funny abstractions.

[Paul Calf]

LOOK IT ISNT A PAINTING

HERE IT IS



WHAT D'YA RECKON CAB? OUTTA 10?

That's the special Internet Explorer logo for high-net-worth individuals with a subscription to Windows ME ME ME.

[Fr.Bigley]

Michaelenangelo is not a painter, he is a sculpture.

Whats that chapel ceiling then, scotch mist?

[thenoise]

Get some cunt to colour it in it'd be worth like 200m right? Then maybe you could pay your staff a decent fucking wage.

[idunnosomename]

Whats that chapel ceiling then, scotch mist?

he can do a paintin if he wants but he is really a sculpture.

[Fr.Bigley]

Get some cunt to colour it in it'd be worth like 200m right? Then maybe you could pay your staff a decent fucking wage.

Bump. Ask Hirst to plaster the cunt in jewels and it's quadrupled in value for the love of god!

[QDRPHNC]

The Malcolm Gladwell podcast mentioned in the article, about the enormous amounts of  valuable artwork that financially struggling galleries keep unseen and locked away in their vaults, and the reasons for this mad case of affairs is a really enjoyable listen:

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/42-dragon-psychology-101

In a way, there are some echoes in it with Rizla's point above, the obsessive and endless acquisition and hoarding of valuable artworks that art curators and gallery managers take part in seems to me like a really extreme version of a collector tendency, an inability to let go of things, that is actually pretty common and a lot of people wrestle with, and some people actually relish.But wheras most people would have a sense, when they run out of shelf and floor space, that their book collection or record collection or taxidermised animal collection or whatever is getting out of hand, people who run galleries are actually encouraged to just buy and buy and buy in the name of civilisation, cultural curation and other funny abstractions.

There is an excellent book called The Legacy of Mark Rothko which goes into the shady world of high-priced art galleries and how they operate.

[Fr.Bigley]

Should just be the shady world of Saatchi to be fair. As an Art Alumni, that mother fuckers empire seemed to dictate the market for the best part of 2 decades.

[privatefriend]

Start an OnlyFans account to raise funds, some of those old statues are pretty tidy.