How To Build A Famous Artist (The Talent Is Almost Optional)
Walk into any major auction house and the same names keep showing up like party guests who never leave. Picasso.…
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The Rumour That Makes a Painting Worth Twice as Much
Forget brushwork. Forget whether you like it. The question that actually decides what a piece of art is worth on…
The Colour That Took Thousands of Years to Exist
Look up on a clear day and the sky is an obvious, insistent blue. It is so ordinary that you…
The Colour That Bankrupt Painters and Blessed the Virgin
For centuries, if you wanted to paint the sky, the sea, or the robes of the Madonna, you had a…
The One Thing a Government Can’t Print More Of
In 1923, a loaf of bread in Weimar Germany cost 200 billion marks. People were burning banknotes in their stoves…