The Artnet Insider doesn't deal in investment advice. Still, your correspondent couldn't help but notice a recent Cindy Adams column in the New York Post, in which the famed yenta offered an art-market nugget of her own.
Real estate follows the market, gold is flat, so the only alternatives are diamonds or art.
Hell, as long as we're at it, let's keep an eye out for pictures of jewelry and gold, as well. At Hammer Galleries on East 57th Street in New York is a show of new cityscapes by Robert Neffson , on view Apr. 2-28, 2001. Other artists give us landscapes that invite us to step back in time, and enter a world of hazy summer pleasures, a world free of worry and care. From the scenic lookout in the foreground with its inviting lawn furniture to the beach and blue sea beyond, a more reassuring picture is hard to imagine. Other contemporary works on view this month, however, position the bear-obsessed viewer in a more dystopic landscape.