<![CDATA[Financial Crisis Changing Art Gallerist's Approach To Buying, Selling Gold-Plated Excrement]]>

1.0 link 144789 <![CDATA[Financial Crisis Changing Art Gallerist's Approach To Buying, Selling Gold-Plated Excrement]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/18/financial-crisis-changing_n_144789.html Javier Peres, an influential art gallerist with unusual taste, says that the economy is slightly affecting the way he does business, reports the New York Observer:

Mr. Peres' tastes run to the extreme. His artist Dash Snow's work has infamously included covers of the New York Post covered with his own semen; in 2007, Terence Koh's solo installation at Art Basel consisted of glass cases containing gold-plated pieces of what he claimed was his own excrement; they sold for a...

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