{"id":525818,"date":"2017-07-22T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=525818"},"modified":"2017-07-22T14:00:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T14:00:47","slug":"horror-at-a-new-york-art-gallery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=525818","title":{"rendered":"Horror at a New York Art Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Brian Maher<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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This post Horror at a New York Art Gallery appeared first on Daily Reckoning.<\/p>\n

Lolling about in the upmarket precincts of New York’s SoHo district recently, we chanced upon a ghastly scene\u2026<\/p>\n

A young, voguish couple in an art gallery\u2026 at close quarters with a square of canvas on the wall.<\/p>\n

On that canvas was a carnage of what we assumed to be paint.<\/p>\n

We suspected at once that a gorilla had broken loose from the Bronx Zoo\u2026 stumbled onto the gallery by way of the 5 train\u2026 and set to work with a violent abandon.<\/p>\n

In respect of decorum and all things holy\u2026 we describe this work of \u201cart\u201d no further.<\/p>\n

But to proceed\u2026<\/p>\n

A tall, slim man in a dark suit stands off to one side of the gallery, studiously indifferent to our young voguish couple\u2026 as if the couple’s presence was merely so much in the day’s work.<\/p>\n

Yet he fixes them with furtive glances every 30 seconds or so. No. Maybe 20.<\/p>\n

This fellow completes the characters of our scene\u2026<\/p>\n

Are these two actually considering buying that thing? we ask in silence.<\/p>\n

Answering our own question:<\/p>\n

No, no, they must be simply looking for the shock value, much like passersby at a road accident\u2026 or a child gawking a fellow who’s missing an ear or a leg. Nobody in their right mind would actually \u2014<\/p>\n

But wait\u2026<\/p>\n

The couple approaches the man in the suit, who pretends to be startled by their approach.<\/p>\n

The couple wheels about, indicating the obscenity on the far wall\u2026<\/p>\n

A few moments of animated conversation ensue, spiced with with hand gestures and head nods\u2026<\/p>\n

Then smiles. Handshakes.<\/p>\n

The female of our tale adds a word of comment, followed by a bellowing laugh from the man in the suit\u2026<\/p>\n

All three approach the counter. A hand, the other fellow’s, reaches into a rear pocket\u2026<\/p>\n

We steal a voyeuristic glance at the price tag hanging from the simian treasure.<\/p>\n

The cost? The cost? We’re tempted to say\u2026 but must refrain in decency.<\/p>\n

We glance back at the counter\u2026<\/p>\n

More smiles. More handshakes.<\/p>\n

Feeling somewhat dirty, as if emerging from a show of burlesque in the small hours\u2026 we set out to hunt a desperately needed drink, chin on chest\u2026 reflecting on the foregoing.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan you believe they just spent that\u2026 for that?\u201d<\/p>\n

Homo economicus can be the most splendidly irrational creature sometimes.<\/p>\n

Think tulips. Think houses. Think stocks\u2026<\/p>\n

Think art.<\/p>\n

That’s why we believe the greatest economic insights will always elude the dead hand of the statistician.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy,\u201d as Hamlet reflected.<\/p>\n

Or your economics, he may have added.<\/p>\n

What compelled our young couple to venture upon such an atrocity this blue day in New York City?<\/p>\n

We’ll never know. But it is not our place to.<\/p>\n

Oscar Wilde famously scolded those \u201cwho know the price of everything and the value of nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Are we among them? We’re alert to that possibility.<\/p>\n

For the sake of this couple, we hope so.<\/p>\n

But in this case\u2026 it is unlikely\u2026<\/p>\n

Regards,<\/p>\n

Brian Maher
\nManaging editor, The Daily Reckoning<\/p>\n

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