In with The Art Crowd

摘要

Judging by recent headlines—$27.5 million hammered down for Francis Bacon's Study for Portrait II, $140 million rumored to have been paid for Jackson Pollock's No. 5, 1948—it's easy to assume that collecting art is a billionaire's hobby. Granted, bagging marquee names usually means paying spectacular prices. But a willingness to invest some time—as well as money, of course—in the world of contemporary art offers rewards of a different sort.