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Art as a Commodity

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Ideas & Questions

Published: 09 April 2016

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• Art,
• Panama Papers,
• Commerce,

And this article following the Panama Papers leak on how Mossack Fonseca assisted it's wealthier customers in hiding and laundering money through Art purchases. Wondering why that Picasso is breaking all records? It might not be as straightforward as you think...

Link: Panama Papers on How and why the very rich buy art, Nazi Looted Modigliani

Previously: Art as Commerce

First Folio

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Found

Published: 07 April 2016

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• Shakespeare,
• First Folio,
• Library,

Ah, the lure of the old-world library, hundreds of dusty and neglected books just waiting to be rediscovered.

And this: http://www.bbc.com/news/education-35973094.

Not a bad trip to the library, if I say so myself...

 

train tattoos

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Dreams

Published: 07 April 2016

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• Tattoos,
• picture,

I'm with a friend (I don't know) and he's run into a friend of his...they're all covered in these crudely done, prison style tattoos, of numbers, signs, symbols, they're railroad employees and these tattoos show every stop you've been to along the railway...they're comparing them, gushing over every place the other has been, I ask if I can take a picture, one agrees, rolls up his sleeves, no face pictures (although he has a couple on his face...)...