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Aesthetic Aspirations
Josh Baer
08/02/2004
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The days of the discreet art patron and the exclusive collection may
be waning. Art has become a heady, global business, and it drives collectors
today to assemble their portfolios with a view to bringing the works,
eventually, into the public arena. |
Our compulsion to bring our art into the public arena might involve
the expensive and elaborate process of creating our own institution to display
it, though many of us take a path of lesser resistance and simply lend our
collections to museums. Whichever we choose, we will find the lifelong process
of assembling and displaying a portfolio will leave our commitment to our
favorite art, our beloved artists, even our primal sense of aesthetics
challenged and, to be sure, heightened.
The experiences and insights of four
leading contemporary collectors illustrate the range of motivations and
strategies that may inform our decisions on what art to collect, and how to
display it.
Youthful Passions
David and Danielle Ganek, both in their mid-30s, live in
a stone house in Connecticut with their three children. He runs a hedge fund
called Level Global, and she is a former magazine creative director now working
on her first novel. They have been collecting art for nearly 20 years, having
begun at truly tender ages. Art—and mostly then it was photography—was one of
the things that brought the two of them together when they started dating right
out of college. David has an edge as a second-generation collector; his parents
were contemporary art collectors. Over the past six years, however, the younger
Ganeks have become a force in the art world.
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