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44. Please stop by tomorrow if you can. It's a lot of fun.

Thu May 3, 2012, 06:47 PM

May 2012

Everybody is welcome. I get so many great responses from people telling me their stories about a picture they loved when they were a kid, or an experience they had in an art course, or a trip they had to a museum that made a difference in their life.

It's just so rewarding to hear these stories. I love it. I love to get people thinking about art and what they really loved about it in their lives. It is often a very central story...

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Would the sale of a famous artwork count as current events? [View all] Baitball Blogger May 2012 OP

To me it does. I like to follow art sales. xchrom May 2012 #1

I had no idea there were four versions. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #2

new highest price? great, now I can raise mine lol nt msongs May 2012 #3

I watch Pawn Stars, Baitball Blogger May 2012 #4

Nope, not so much pipoman May 2012 #5

prices are appreciating at the top because there's more money concentrated at the top = HiPointDem May 2012 #7

Makes a lot of sense. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #9

Well, sure, if you have a spare $120 million just laying around,,, JFN1 May 2012 #6

What is more amazing, is that if this guy purchased it for an investment, Baitball Blogger May 2012 #10

It kills me to think of great art being sequestered and used as a "bragging" piece, when it CTyankee May 2012 #12

Isn't the joke on them because the image is no longer copyrighted? Baitball Blogger May 2012 #24

Well, sure, if that is your motivation for owning something but that is not why CTyankee May 2012 #25

I can understand the obsession. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #27

I spend a lot of time at this hobby. I read constantly. I do art travel the way some people CTyankee May 2012 #28

Just beautiful. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #29

Not pedestrian at all! CTyankee May 2012 #31

No idea whatsoever about Van Gogh. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #37

In General Discussion on Fridays at 5 pm, EST. CTyankee May 2012 #41

I can see it in your pictures better than anything I picked up on the internet. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #39

Please stop by tomorrow if you can. It's a lot of fun. CTyankee May 2012 #44

Do these have anything to do with tomorrow's Challenge? pinboy3niner May 2012 #30

Now, pinboy, you know better than that! CTyankee May 2012 #32

I'm tempted... pinboy3niner May 2012 #33

You are too funny! CTyankee May 2012 #42

Hey, believe me, I have experience... pinboy3niner May 2012 #43

Yes. jonthebru May 2012 #8

This will fly in the face of those who think that there is no merit Baitball Blogger May 2012 #11

In my next life, I am going to be a curator at a great museum. CTyankee May 2012 #13

We were in Paris for two days, time was critical. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #15

My faves in the Louvre: Veronese's Wedding at Cana and Delacroix's Death of CTyankee May 2012 #16

Oh, please. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #18

Ah to be in love in Paris! How romantic! Good for you and your lucky sweetheart! CTyankee May 2012 #22

He's still my sweetheart. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #23

Awww...that's so nice. What a great memory. CTyankee May 2012 #26

was that your comment about the economy?? cbdo2007 May 2012 #14

Interesting how Munch's painting about existential horror sold for so much money smirkymonkey May 2012 #17

If you do a search you'll find one where there's a bubble message which reads, Baitball Blogger May 2012 #19

re: not touched by the economy cthulu2016 May 2012 #20

Not to mention that the rich have ways to protect their own interests and improve their odds Baitball Blogger May 2012 #21

It is an iconic work of art edhopper May 2012 #34

Oh, darn! My bid missed it by THAAAAT much... pinboy3niner May 2012 #35

The American Classic. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #36

Not even a clue here pinboy3niner May 2012 #40

Much more newsworthy than stupid shit some politician's wife or kid said or did IMO slackmaster May 2012 #38