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...

I'd like to donate to your theater, but

Funding Cuts for the Arts

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

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

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

Please help: National Endowment for the Arts

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

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

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

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

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

Pin Vincent's ear on.

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

'Supporting the arts'

Sale

'This one is called Fruit Concentrate.'

A Low Budget Philharmonic Orchestra

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

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."

Edward Colston

'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."

The gallery sells my artwork, mom

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

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

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

Freedom.

Gillian, Barry, and the Price of a Small Braque