Well I paid 15 bucks to go and see the 125 million dollar Byzantine inspired, Golden Style portrait of Adele Bloch- Bauer painted by Gustav Klimt in 1907, now showing in the Neue Gallerie on 5th Avenue. Why is it worth 125 million dollars? Just to get publicity for the gallery, or for the story behind the painting to get publicity? Perhaps both. But was it worth 15 dollars to see? It certainly is exquisite and I think the story behind it deserves all the publicity it can get. -The entire estate of The Bloch-Bauers was seized by the Nazis in 1938, and this painting with 4 others have just been returned to their rightful heirs. What price can be put on the crimes the Nazis commited?
On a completely different note
And strange as it was that I had been in a gallery of German(and Austrian) art and that I should wander out into Central park afterwards and spark up a very pleasant conversation with a very handsome fellow from Germany........