response to GOOD magazine's post Who Pays for Museum Tickets?
the real cost of museum tickets
Commented on April 22, 2008 by - willboy
Hi friends
We've outgrown this 800-pixel wide website and we're moving to new digs.While we pack up our things (i.e. articles and videos and stuff), we're shutting down commenting and new registrations on the current site.
Our new site is up and running at GOOD.is/.
Yours,
GOOD
How the campaign is doing:
$1M
0 $862,800 raised
this is how it REALLY works: Owner of many pieces of art of one artist, say Warhol, gives one (estimated value, appraisal worked out with museum and lawyers for owner, Owner gets tax benefit (we pay), new value for rest of paintings in owners collection now appreciate, owner gets rich, we pay. It gets even better when a New artist is "recognized" in a museum collection and suddenly the value of all of their art sky rockets. Museum raises funds from the new wealth class they created, while the "value of their collection is uncalcuable. By the way, artist chooses to donate to a museum, she can deduct the cost of materials on her tax form. Get real, and better.