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Stock, Money, and Art

MONEY IN EXCHANGE FOR ART THAT IS BASED ON MONEY

 

How would you like to own a piece of the stock market? I’m not talking about a share in some company, but rather an actual one-of-a-kind, never-again-to-be-produced work of art based on the stock code of your choice?

 

Australian artist Anthony White produces just such works upon request. But once he paints a piece representing a company from a given stock exchange (such as YHOO, representing the company Yahoo!®), he will never again paint that particular symbol.

One Pound. Photo courtesy of Anthony White (www.anthonywhite.net).

 

Anthony’s ...

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