https://abcnews.go.com/International/stolen-van-gogh-painting-worth-millions-recovered-dutch/story?id=103110291
A Dutch art detective has helped recover a missing Vincent van Gogh painting that was stolen from the Singer Laren Museum, east of Amsterdam, in March 2020.
This kind of headline makes me sick: "Work of art worth X currency" - because of course it's only the financial speculative aspect that makes art valuable and no one cares about anything else. Disgusting.
I mean, original Van Gogh gigs will sell for boatloads of money though. It's not particularly speculative.
Lesser known artists, sure.
Realistically? I think it very much is. If you can't make money with art either by producing or buying/selling/owning it then pretty much no one cares.
When is the last time you genuinely saw someone care about a work of art breaking new ground, or for it delving into truly novel understanding, or due to it invoking feelings in the recipient?
Like the outrage ober the self-shredding Banksy? Oh noes, so much value destroyed how could he!!1
Graffiti?
The Grenfell tower fire tributes weren't produced for money, and invoke feelings
Yep, that counts. And honestly, it counts for a lot more to me than speculative art trading and hoarding.