By THE NEW YORK TIMESPublished: February 28, 2008
A collection of 725 works of modern art valued at $250 million has been bought for Britain for $52 million and will tour the country under the ownership and management of the Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland, the museums said on Wednesday. Described as one of the most important holdings of postwar and contemporary international art in private hands, the collection, featuring names like Diane Arbus, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mapplethorpe (whose portrait of Patti Smith is shown above), Gerhard Richter and Andy Warhol...
(pictures: Damian Hirst's “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.”)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/arts/28arts-BRITAINACQUI_BRF.html?ref=artsts/28arts-BRITAINACQUI_BRF.html?ref=arts
3 comments:
is it just me, or is 52 mil sounding like a bargain? maybe I've been in this too long.
Nicole, I think you're right. For a blue chip collection, it is a bargain! British museum's rarely generate revenue from admissions, but I think it's a drop in the hat for the UK. I'm telling you, Socialism is the way to go!!! I'm jealous...
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