Thanks to all the lovers of art experiments

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If you divide something over and over eventually you have next to nothing, Im not thinking hedge funds but something like that. Apparently alot of hedge fund operators collected contemporary art. Not now though, although these new means to prosper will likely continue and enlarge as the time passes and it's safe to eat cake again. Money is harder to come by it's been swept up in the disaster at the mortgage banks, a huge amount of wealth vanished in the crisis, I mean vast loss of net worth of USA.  And art well it's a hard sell, so much of any time it is bracketed by whose got the money whether it's the Guggenheims or the crazy guy in LA it's still a show me the money kind of world. Still the institutions seem well enough, investments are conservative besides the whole museum thing is a leisure center, inexpensive  fun and nobody has to pay attention. It's a free ride - it's riding the bus to MIA on a frozen day and looking at Chinese work in light dimmed for art's protection. Same in the galleries with work on paper, last week looking at some East Indian work, I thought I'd see alot of Mughal paintings in Chicago in brighter light before the preservation protocols were enacted. I lve those paintings they are so tiny, the figures the landscape it's painting that fits into a saddlebag, so the owner can take to his next destination temple or brothel. _____ Got my notebooks back from the Walker Art Center the notebooks were at Walker on loan for almost 2 years, since Philippe Vergne left museum. I'm glad to have them back, but the storage was a nice thing, 34 11 X  14" books weighs a bit takes up some space. I was thinking of them as a diary of a subversive type just the facts and all the bits and pieces that can't be anything. A couple new notebooks are now in the house made whilst the sisters were at the Walker, I don't know sometimes I think my art is quite subversive, sometimes fun but who really knows?  but it would be better if pictures paid royalties like songs do, but it ain't going to happen, cuz bidness whats to get back to making tons of money, before the next calamity. If art can teach us anything it's to keep flexible the next thing might be even weirder. I'm hoping for Robin telling all on the Batman.