Sunday, March 08, 2009

"A cross between an aging bon vivant and a secret agent" -- Larry Gagosian and his Art Gallery in a major recession --



Found art in the kitchen sink -- Copyright Kyi May Kaung

http://www.mydigitalfc.com/art-and-culture/gagosian-pulls-art-sales-out-thinning-air-928

My point of view is true quality will ride out all boom-bust cycles.

And as an artist, all I need to do is keep painting. That's not too difficult.

Writers can keep writing. Fantasy always sells, especially when things are down. As I am a writer too, I am strangely OK. Besides, I come from Burma where people continue in conditions lower than in any developed country.

Visual and plastic artists and writers can make art from anything. If things are bad, there are more stories.

Short comment Copyright Kyi May Kaung.

An excellent, excellent movie--The Burial--On a par with Mississippi Burniing--

You can see it on Amazon Prime--based on a real life case and the original story in the New Yorker. Court scenes--the funeral monopoly that...