For example, many collectors are now nationalistic, only buying art by their own countrymen. But only about 10 percent of all collectors are real collectors. The rest buy for different reasons. Young artists, before their prices take off, and before they're picked up by the big galleries. They have to really want to do it.
Passion is work too.
Sounds like the '80s to me. JEFF RIAN is a writer living in Paris. All rights reserved.