This Wall Street Journal article about children who
collect art gets on my nerves. I’ve got nothing against art, nothing against
collecting and nothing against kids. But I hate how a gallery owner gushes
about a young girl’s “great eye” after the nine-year-old handed over more than
$5,000 for a porcelain basket covered with tiny platinum elephants. Basket?
Elephants? Sounds like something four out of five nine-year-old girls might
pick out if given such a substantial knick-knack budget. The rest of the girl’s
40-piece collection – which the young collector says focuses on animals, “happy
colors” such as pink and yellow, and includes a Warhol panda – is equally as
unsurprising if you ignore the cost, value and artist’s signatures.
Parents of these young collectors are nonetheless impressed.
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