In the context of the Massif Central and the Tarn Gorge, it is a colossal piece of land art that completes the landscape, arguably making it better, adding majesty to the serenity of the hillscape.
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Not only do they impoverish the citizenry thanks to an evisceration of savings, they force capital allocators who fund all economic growth to protect their funds in unproductive sinks of wealth (think gold, land and art) over the growth parts of the economy.
In short, when the dollar is in decline limited capital tends to flow toward hard assets such as gold, land and rare art that already exist, and away from the stock and bond income streams that will fund the creation of wealth that doesn't yet exist.
In "Rebel Yell, " Cai, now a U.S. citizen, talks to us about the art world, his native land and heaven.
Instead, they seek hedges against the very devaluation sought by monetarists which is most often investment in the wealth of yesterday: think land, commodities, rare stamps, art, etc.
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Do they belong with other contemporary art or with works from the land of their birth?
"The current correction in the speculative end of the market is not only of no concern to the artists, they are generally unaware of it, " said Will Stubbs, coordinator of the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka art center in North East Arnhem Land.
In a way, the Getty-sponsored exhibit is an unusual form of a request-for-proposal, as well as an important step toward Govan and his board's actual goal: to shift the balance of art and culture westward to the land of swimming pools and movie stars.
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The list is based on identifiable wealth, including land, property and other assets, such as art and racehorses, or significant shares in publicly quoted companies.
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The site is part public park, part wildlife sanctuary, part space for installation art -- just one more piece of reclaimed land enriching Berlin's urban life.
The one area that will either appeal to you or really turn you off to the game is the art style, which leaps headlong into cartoon-land.
Typically this meant plowing money into commodities, land, and other scarce if useless things (such as fine art), on the assumption that investment vehicles definitively limited in supply would hold their value in the context of dollar weakness.
With all that in place, he was able to land a large job with an 8, 000-square-foot art gallery in September 2007.
Some leased out their land, turning to cottage industry and running bed-and-breakfasts, art galleries, and trendy boutiques, while others found work elsewhere.
It is a land of deserts and jungle, camel trains and tigers, glittering jewels, vivid art and vibrant culture.
They offered to sell us the land, and we thought it would be a great idea to have the two spaces together to build a unique art corridor in Mexico City, something the city really needed.
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