Showing posts with label Picasso. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Picasso. Show all posts

Looking for artistic real estate?

You can buy Michelangelo's Tuscan villa for around $8 million.

If you have more to spend, this $10 million French chateaux includes murals by Picasso.

But if you're on budget, you can rent a replica of Van Gogh's bedroom in Arles from Airbnb for $10 per night. (It's part of an exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago)

I bought a Picasso drawing for around a hundred bucks!

Mine, all mine?

Maybe that's premature. I bought a lottery ticket for 100 Euros--around $135. If I win the raffle, I have a 1 in 50,000 chance, then I win a Picasso drawing from 1914.

All proceeds from the lottery go to relief organizations for Tyre, Lebanon.

Questions I've been asked so far:
  * No, I will not just hang it in my living room to get damaged or stolen. I'm aware these things need special handling.
  * Yes, the winner (or a legal proxy) has to go to France to pick it up. I've never been to France, and I'm looking forward to the trip.
  * No, I will not let anyone lick the drawing, no matter how much they enjoy licking great art (you know who you are).

Oops!

A woman accidentaly fell into a Picasso painting at the Met Friday. It will undergo surgery.