AskMeArts – a blog about collecting
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World record in record collecting – The Archive
This is a wonderful short film made by American filmmaker Sean Dunne about 4 years ago. The film called ‘The Archive’ tells the story of legally blind record collector, Paul Mawhinney from Pittsburgh, PA, who has been collecting records for over 40 years. He has now accumulated what must be a world record in record…
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Anthony Vizzari – A tale of cameras, booths and bodies.
Cameraman Philip Bloom has worn many hats through-out his career, amongst them photographer, blogger, entrepreneur, educator, writer, marketeer. Apologies if I have missed any. It is through his wonderful talents as a film-maker however that he has risen to prominence outside of his industry. He has made many fine short films over the past number…
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Record price for newly found Chinese vase.
An extraordinary price of £51m was achieved yesterday for a Chinese vase discovered in a regular clearance of a bungalow’s contents in north London. The vase, part of an inheritance put on sale by a brother and sister at Middlesex auctioneers Bainbridges of Ruislip, is from the Qianlong period, c.1740s to late 1790s, an era…
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Putting the hammer on the Big 2 good for collectors
This article was first published March 5th, 2000, in the Sunday Business Post The number of column inches that the price-fixing fiasco between Sotheby’s and Christie’s has received recently has been nothing short of startling. But the subsequent resignations, the US Justice Department antitrust investigations and the outcry from clients and shareholders have to a…
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The beauty of buying time
This article was first published in the ‘Collector’s Corner’, Sunday Business Post, Feb 2000 under the title ‘Timely reminders’, and March 5th 2000, under the above title, ‘The beauty of buying time’ With the hullabaloo from the millennium celebrations and universal obsession with recording that moment now relegated to distant memory, it is worth looking…
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Beauty can be profitable.
This article first appeared in the February 2000, in the Sunday Business Post Considering the current activity within the equity markets, especially with technological stocks on the Nasdaq, it is easy to forget that long before the performance of firms like Microsoft, Iona and Baltimore Technologies were part of dinner party conversations, the profit motive…
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If you go down to the woods today.
This article was first published in Collectors Corner, Oct 1st, 2000 in the Sunday Business Post In case you hadn’t noticed from the masthead, today is the first of October. This is of no major consequence except for the fact that from now until the end of the year, we can expect to be…
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Auction Houses go online
This article was first published April 2, 2000 in the Sunday Business Post. Auction Houses go Online They said it couldn’t last. For months the analysts have been painting the walls with a dark thick impasto. The message was there for all to see – internet stocks were simply selling way above their value. As…
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Topographically speaking volumes
This article was first published in ‘Collector’s Corner’ of the Sunday Business Post, September 24th, 2000 Although the term ‘topographical painting’ suggests connections with local geography, landscape and mapmaking, in the strictest sense topography means the portraiture of places. The topographer’s task was chiefly to gather information and record a view for posterity. The topographical…
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Auction houses to pay for collusion
This article was first published in the Sunday Business Post, October 1st 2000 News was emerging last week of a possible denouement to the long running price fixing dispute between the two leviathans of the fine art auctioneering world, Sotheby’s and Christie’s It now appears that both firms will be paying out over $500 million…
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