I once went to a Contemporary art auction at Sotheby’s. Not to buy anything, obv, but because private art collections are more or less private and auctions present the only opportunities one may get in a lifetime to stare and gape in mock, shock, and awe at a select group of historically significant and/or very pretty world famous paintings and photographs. Plus, they’re surreal affairs, phenomenon both fascinating and nauseating to witness. Unless your last name is Rockefeller or FancyPants, you’re rarely in a room with a few hundred individuals who count their money in stacks of millions. If you want to experience it all firsthand, you can make your way to your local neighborhood international auction house on days when the hammer drops to watch all the hullabaloo and hobnob with high society (auctions are usually free to attend), or you can catch Christie’s In the Saleroom.
- 5/23/2011
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
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