Tyler Cowen: evaluation

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…He said it’s not actually happening. There’s lots of fantastic work by women artists, and museums aren’t buying any of it. They could buy it for £5 if they actually just got their fingers out. Textiles are grossly underpriced, I think, relative to aesthetic quality. I agree. Actually, funnily enough, that’s a very good point. One of the very few things I have bought in the last 10 years was a Mennonite textile made somewhere in the southern states of America out of little bits of the black suits of the mourning costumes of the men. A beautiful thing, and it was, I think, $1,000. Goodness knows how long it took to make. It’s a beautiful thing. It’s like an abstract work of art. Absolutely. No, I agree. That’s the thing with art, once you find a corner that you like—that’s why I have to not get too involved. Because if I did—…

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