Video Talk: Daisuke Miyatsu on Collecting with a Budget

The story of Daisuke Miyatsu is a true legend. Dubbed as the “Salary-man Collector” (or, the Japanese Herbert Vogel), he’s a regular office worker and doesn’t have a big budget for art, but his collection is just as spectacular. He started collecting art with the budget of $1000 US dollar 20 years ago, but the big question is: is it still possible for a salaryman to collect art nowadays?

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Video Talk: Philip Tinari on the Relationship Between Curators and Artists

A notable writer, critic, art curator, and expert in Contemporary Chinese Art, Philip Tinari is the director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing. After telling us about the latest show of Scandinavian duo Elmgreen & Dragset creating a fake art fair in UCCA, CoBo challenges him by a question: if curator is water, what is the role of artist? And…which artist would he date?

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