Galleries to see high-quality large optical prints in the US?

[DREW WILEY]

What amazed me is how the painting galleries on the glitzy south shore of Maui were displaying stuff even worse than Lik in Lahaina. Paintings of Hawaiian scenes so amateurish that they wouldn't have fetched a hundred dollars on the mainland were priced in the tens of thousands. Location, location, location, plus some questionable manipulation skills of naive buyers by big grin sales agents. The same tricks are played on our own tourist waterfronts. I always wondered why people can't put two and two together. If the fancy poster or whatever is going to appreciate 1000% in value over the next decade, why the heck isn't the salesperson themselves buying it instead?

 

[gbroadbridge]

Cruise ship art!?

No, it is not art. Drrrft.

Someone sounding just like that was spruiking the stuff on a ship a couple of years back.

 

[koraks]

Ah, I see; this one is easy to settle. The only thing we have to agree on is the definition of art. Looks like we'll be able to bring this to a conclusion within 3-4 posts, tops.

 

[gary mulder]

Ah, I see; this one is easy to settle. The only thing we have to agree on is the definition of art. Looks like we'll be able to bring this to a conclusion within 3-4 posts, tops.

yes, easy.