Thanks for the resources! When I was a young dealer (80’s/90’s) I used to buy Art & Auction magazine which had great coverage of the auction scene. Haven’t seen it for years but I think it’s still in print, though with the internet now, not sure how valuable it is.

My wife and I have been collecting since 1993, it's all virtually worthless imo. It's junk but at least it's our junk.

All this guy does is name drop

Artist, please dont listen to this nonsense. Learn to sell your own art. All he is trying to do is discourage you. Fuck gatekeepers. Stop giving your power over to them, they are just middle trying to profit off your work, they do nothing. We have all the tools now to market ourselves to the world. Dont fall for "prestige."

I've been going to Uniqlo and buying all the Andy Warhol shirts, so much great Warhol loot. Thanks so much for sharing Chris! (ps. there's a spelling error, "favourite of mind")

What is infinitely more interesting that any of these 'pieces' of modern art is the mindset, motivation of those pay that much for them. There is good art and there is money art. Don't confuse them, that's like confusing a microwave oven with a tv set. There are lads in Vietnam who can pull out a tree log and carve it into the most intricate beauty, then there is some guy in NYC who pours paint onto a canvas and sells it for millions.

These are just topical woke propaganda, someone paid $189k for it to virtue signal to himself.

In the very back corner of every Walmart you'll find " art" just like this.

Rich woke White people no longer virtue signaling by purchasing vapid finger paintings by oppressed BIPOC "artists"?

They're all in it for money, so why not be honest about it?

If u haven’t caught on that the art scene is a sham cover for HT - your back in 2000🤦‍♀️

Vous avez de très mauvais goûts 🙁

Perfect brief introduction to the amazing JSG Boggs. I met Boggs about 30 years ago, at the big Art Fair in Los Angeles (the high brow one...) He saw me photographing and asked if he could hire me. I said sure. He basically wanted some snap shots. I’d have done them for free, just a few minutes was all he needed. He insisted he would ‘pay’ me, explaining that I would write an invoice, he would ‘pay’ me with ‘art money’ (not sure if that’s the term he used) and I would give him real cash as change. I was pretty poor in those days so I balked. The photos were of him in something like a sedan chair with I think some caricatures of Nixon. I think he was more interested in the cash. He had the air of a scammer. Carny origins fits perfectly. I can see why police wouldn’t be reassured when they met him. All he was up to was playing with the idea of money and trading his art for services and real cash. I have no idea what his work is now worth, but it was a good deal. Also I was probably one of the poorest people in the Convention Center, so he could’ve made much bigger trades. I hope he was. Your video is a really good explanation of Boggs. He was doing something brilliantly artistic. I’d absolutely want to have a Boggs hanging on my wall. I remember reading about his passing and felt really sad. I guess he never ‘made it big,’ which is why it is always a lot more fun and interesting hanging out with artists and studio crew than dealers and collectors.

the money supply expanded so wildly in 2021 and then has gone stagnant. classic cars are showing the same signs. Just look at NFTs.

really cool

3:09 Today I learned that Yoko Ono is to art what Yoko Ono is to music.

Great experience to just have the art work on you while you're doing other things. And to notice it! We get trained early on to look at a painting and run down lists... But if there's time.. just let it do it's thing. And what if you arrive at a completely wrong idea? If you're only an academic you'll write an article and annoy students. If you're an artist, you've just got something to play with and investigate. Robert Irwin, like Kelly, also spent a lot of time in Europe looking at 'brown paintings.' But it's amazing how really good work gets into your head and tells you what's going on.

It's about marketing. I have a BFA. I got out of art decades ago and made maybe $2,000 total in my entire "career." The guy in my graduating class who made a living out of it and did reasonably well was already marketing himself back in college. He work was OK, not great, but he sure was good at marketing himself.

That was both fascinating and horrible. All that irreplaceable history, those one of a kind works of art gone, bc of three, entitled self-absorbed, criminals.. bc they were all culpable. Thank you for telling it!

That art dealer is a swindler!! The Russian Oligarch must take care of things!!

it was an excuse to have a cheeseburger.. c'mon now

Thank you for explaining how this works

I loved your video! Very, very well done! Thank you very much.

Well said " when art gets confused with money" I wish there would be more interest in just art alone.

10k is too much even for those paintings , they should be $5

It wasn’t a great painting to begin with & was overpriced at initial purchase.

greatest hack of all time

easy to launder money if you "lose" it

Part of the problem is now, there are more artists than there are people who need to launder money.

you know how to tell a great story, and I really like the editing! i hope one day I’ll have 14K followers too, I posted my first video today! (and long live art always and anyway)

Happy Holidays to you as well ✨🎁 And thank you for pulling together a Warhol wrap-up. For me, the most interesting part was the first six seconds where he just sits and talks. It made me wonder, if there exists a lot of video material from Andy-mat or similar projects? To me this kind of stuff is somewhat less known Warhol.

Van Gogh is not pronounced 'go', absolutely not. He was Dutch, not French. Plenty of Zombie Formalism still around, actually. Wallpaper for the superrich.

Commenter comments on video. (*I also love to talk about myself in the 3rd person)

Beautiful….Burger.

Yas merry Christmas!!!!

I want to like your channel and i appreciate the insights into things but i never see you look beyond the whole big-money hustle of art. Fuck the market, of course rich people have no taste, why would you ever want to define the 'art world' as such. Its so maudlin to even consider some rich guy selling a painting for 'just' $25,000 or whatever. How does one even break into this world of printing money via canvases? Playing the big-money art game. Pretending along with collectors that your work has value that translates to money. Its insanity and sure to rot away anything daring or inventive or unpleasant or interesting

Merry Christmas

Very artfully done! If one looks at any individual Warhol work (say something as mundane as soup cans), it can be pretty easy to question Warhol’s status as an artist. But when looking at the totality of his work (such as your video here) it’s pretty clear he was an artistic genius. He just worked in mediums that had never been used like that before or since.

I remember the day he died, I was 22, a young gallerist and he was/is my hero.

Magnificent video as always! Loved the music! Merry Christmas to everyone!! Do you think you’ll ever do a video on the magnificent American artist Amy Sillman? She’s such an incredible inspiration 👌🏻👌🏻

What is the music?

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Merry Christmas!!! 🎄

Love it ! ❤

Well, going to have to share my thoughts on Warhol and Basquit ; I think they both define the term “ kitschy” . But, hey , that’s just me. Safe and joyful Christmas. Me.

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no wondewr, digital collage sux, ain't nobody throwing money on a nameless digital random crap.

i drew a black man in shackles and it sold for 400k, i sold it to some rich dumb leftist. there are good market to sell to

Money laundering scam for rich people, just like "fashion"

Reckless Speculation is not art appreciation!