I know people who lost their homes.
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Should have kept them in a secure location - like a museum.
But they might have soup splashed on their glass!
I believe the conspiracy that those people work for oil companies with the goal to make all activists look bad
At least you know you're a nutter.
I think the actual nutters are the ones vandalizing priceless landmarks and actually turning the general population against climate activism.
Do you think artists are going to produce art to be freely hung in a museum?
The reason art is valuable and worthy of being hung in a museum is because there is a market for it.
Lay people travel to the Louvre to see the Gioconda because they perceive it as valuable, important, and irreplaceable.
No market means no measure of value for art
I vehemently do no agree that art is only valuable because of it's monetary worth. I pity you if that's the only value you see.
LOL
I did not say monetary value was art’s only worth. However art that hangs in a museum got there because of its value. This is true across history and across cultures
You pity me?
Would love to hear about your art background and knowledge.
I grew up around art. I am surrounded by art and artists everyday of my life. Literally
Art is work. Artists do not work for free. Just like you don’t work for free. Some work is more valuable than other work. Some art is more valuable than other art
Some art has very little artistic value, meaning it adds little to the conversation and the world of art
You're just wrong bro lol.
Artists make WAY more art "for free" than they do for monetary gain. I absolutely pity the fact that your concept of human expression is so tied to societies weird dependency on "value" and the institution of money.
This is the funniest crap I’ve heard in the long time. LOL
I’m guessing you’re either 12 or just trolling
Go be pretentious to someone who cares. Blocked.
People lost every photo they have of their parents.
People lost every precious thing from their childhood and every family heirloom.
Some people lost their lives.
This guy lost some paintings and gets a NY Times article for it.
I would say it's too soon for this article, but don't you think there's something worth recognizing here? I am sad for those who lost photos of loved ones, etc, but we all lost a piece of art that forms part of our cultural history.
Now, did Picasso have millions of unimportant sketches? I don't know. Was this something like that? Then maybe I agree with you more.
Edit: I take it back; iels gross that he's got all this art insured and will get lots of money for its loss. Also, it was mostly lots of Warhol prints, which I'd say are more like the "million sketches" scenario. Definitely an article in poor taste.
This persists as long as we decide this is news worth sharing and discussing. There is a recent meme floating around about how part of media literacy needs to be ignoring bait like this. This article getting no clicks would be the very best outcome.
Yes, I will store the expensive paintings in a house made of toothpicks and cardboard with a tar roof in a state known to have widespread fires every year. It is a good idea.
$$$ insurance payout
Wouldn't he have to prove ownership? Most likely he lost that too.
people with significant money in art assets have it documented and insured. if he had 30 pieces just by warhols and additional, we're likely talking millions of dollars of assets.
nobody leaves millions of dollars lying around without some sort of insurance
to be honest, this is a great opportunity for him to cash out of all his expensive art in one fell swoop. i would be elated if I were him
Oh no some rich ass hole lost their rich ass hole stuff. Boo hoo.
On insurance company, my millions of dollars in art work burned up. Money please. No it's not possible to verify if I just stuck them in a storage unit somewhere or not.
Knowing what little I know about the fine art market, he can probably have the ashes authenticated and sold for a profit.
oh no.
Anyway...
Is this the right way to protest climate change?