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It’s Easier Than Ever to Invest in Works of Art
By Andy Gordon on May 25, 2022
I was in the fifth grade when Andy Warhol held his first solo painting exhibit in 1962. He was showing his set of 32 Campbell’s soup cans. The exhibit bombed. Pop art was just getting started in the early ‘60s. Art critics didn’t get him or his art. But he did sell five cans. One of the buyers was Dennis Hopper. Hopper was in some great Hollywood films, including “Apocalypse Now” (1979) directed by the great…