Art For Profit Mugs

'I highly recommend this painting if you're interested in art as an investment.'

'It's called 'Oh Bugger It!' if you must know!'

'Shouldn't we spend a little time on the ARTS?'

Anyone would think it's Frieze week...

"We have a new line of designer hedge funds...the Topiary Group."

Funding Cuts for the Arts

"In this piece, the price clearly does not reflect what the artist is trying to say."

"Now on view: Old paintings by dead white men through whenever…"

Please help: National Endowment for the Arts

"But. . . editorial cartoons can make readers think!"

"We'd like to take a majority position in your poetry."

'I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but in order for Act 3 to go on we'll need an additional $17,000!'

Pin Vincent's ear on.

"I know it is a digital production, but this cheque is a digit short."

"Is there any way we could describe this bit of old tart that would make a Russian oligarch pay £2 million for it?"

'I highly recommend this painting if you're into art as an investment.'

'Supporting the arts'

Sale

A Low Budget Philharmonic Orchestra

'This one is called Fruit Concentrate.'

Landlord makes a song and dance about the rent at a theatre

Edward Colston

Useful vs. Wasteful Spending . . . Arts Programs and Missile Defense Programs.

"Viewers should be advised: the following debate on public funding for the arts contains violence and adult language."

'He got a grant on the condition that he stop painting for a year.'

"The department has run out of money..."

'Hold everything! -- The National Endowment for the Arts changed its mind!'

"My art is bigger than life."

Jean's later work is heavily criticized for being too commercial.

'Stand over there and hold out some money. I want to test my fiscal compass.'

'You'd better stop there, my council funding's just been cut.'

'It says, 'Like many of the greats, he was a brilliant self-publicist.'

Freedom.

Gillian, Barry, and the Price of a Small Braque