Frick Experts: Key to Understanding Current Art Bubble Lies in the Past
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A mix of art dealers, collectors, and academics assembled for a two-day symposium at the Frick Collection in New York this weekend. Part academic conference, part tutorial for budding and established collectors, the semi-annual event's topic this season was “Collecting Colonial and Modern Latin American Art in the United States.”
The gathering, held in the Frick’s genteel mansion on the Upper East Side, was a study in contrast to last week's frenetic post-war and contemporary art auctions, when $745 million worth of art sold in three hours at Christie’s, a figure that one commentator called "near-incomprehensible."