{"id":1932,"date":"2010-09-25T19:16:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T02:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/09\/money_the_visuals\/"},"modified":"2010-09-25T19:16:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T02:16:26","slug":"money_the_visuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/09\/money_the_visuals.html","title":{"rendered":"Money, the impoverished visuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To earn it, clocks are punched and shirts are pressed. <b><\/p>\n<p><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gagosian.com\/exhibitions\/britannia-street-2007-09-pop-art-is\/#\/images\/20\/\">Piotr Uklanski<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PIOTRUKLA\u0143SKI$.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/PIOTRUKLA%C5%83SKI%24.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"306\" width=\"300\" \/>Few jobs are secure. You may do your able best, but you&#8217;re still going to be fired. Then you&#8217;ll hole up by yourself and think it&#8217;s your fault. (Via<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imrevolting.net\/?p=516\"> I&#8217;m Revolting<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lonleydollarbill.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/lonleydollarbill.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"212\" width=\"500\" \/> Even when artists make money, they don&#8217;t make money.<b> <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrimoreproject.com\/lp\/Artists\/Pages\/SuttonBeresCuller.html#11\">SuttonBeresCuller<\/a> (<i>Distribution of Wealth, 2009<br \/>\n100 uncirculated one-dollar bills cut to portray the percentages received by the artists and their dealer<\/i>.<br \/>\n46 x 11 x 6 inches ) <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"suttonberescullerdollars.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/suttonberescullerdollars.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"358\" width=\"478\" \/> Of course there are exceptions, although most of the exceptions are dead. <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/13\/arts\/design\/13warhol.html\">Andy Warhol<\/a>&#8216;s<\/b> 1962 silk-screen painting <i>200 One Dollar Bills<\/i> sold for $43.7 million at Sotheby&#8217;s in 2009. (Image via New York Times)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"andywarholdollarbills.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/andywarholdollarbills.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"433\" width=\"501\" \/> Tight as money is, collective action can make a difference. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/art21\/artists\/chin\/\"><b>Mel Chin<\/b><\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.art21.org\/2008\/03\/03\/mel-chin-the-fundred-dollar-bill-project\/\"><i>Funded Dollar Bill<\/i><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"melchinfundeddollar.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/melchinfundeddollar.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"206\" width=\"344\" \/>  Inside a mess, there is always an opportunity. In 2007, <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregkucera.com\/daws.htm\">Jack Daws<\/a><\/b> instituted a penny upgrade, fabricating ten in gold. The<br \/>\none he slipped into general circulation and never expected to see again<br \/>\npopped up two years later. (COUNTERFEIT PENNY, 2007<br \/>\n18-karat gold, copper plated, Edition of 10). (Stories <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/10\/jack-daws-counterfeit-penny-su.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/11\/on-finding-jack-daws-penny.html\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"jackdawscounterfeit.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/jackdawscounterfeit.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"477\" width=\"503\" \/>Finding a gold penny is once-in-a-lifetime discovery, and the one in our lifetimes has already been found. Back to out regular programming, where the rich get richer and everybody else gets the joker &#8211; Anonymous, in circulation. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"jokerdollarbill.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/jokerdollarbill.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"300\" width=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Eight years of George Bush and his cronies pushed us over the cliff. Now, the same people who put us there want to be sure we don&#8217;t climb back. Maybe we should all light a sparkler and sing softly to ourselves, from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ghz4_kikLkE\"> sea to shining sea<\/a>, to remind us of what&#8217;s at stake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ppowgallery.com\/selected_work.php?artist=33&amp;image=3\">Robin Williams<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"robinwilliamssparkles.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/robinwilliamssparkles.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"432\" width=\"500\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To earn it, clocks are punched and shirts are pressed. Piotr Uklanski Few jobs are secure. You may do your able best, but you&#8217;re still going to be fired. Then you&#8217;ll hole up by yourself and think it&#8217;s your fault. (Via I&#8217;m Revolting ) Even when artists make money, they don&#8217;t make money. 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