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rooting4redpillers ago

Maria Marshall, artwork titled: President Bill Clinton, Memphis, Nov. 1993 | 2000 | DVD projection, ed. of 5 | $12,000 (sold) at TEAM.

SOLD - for $12,000

Added: Trying to learn about this purchase via Guggenheim web pages, but for the last hour, the pages won't load. Maybe later.


Added: Maria Marshall's President Bill Clinton was purchased by Bill and Ruth True. Here's an article about them:

true believers - Seattle collectors Bill and Ruth True combine a taste for the cutting edge with an abiding commitment to their community. | Sept 2007

Excerpts and Fun Facts: Widely considered to be among the top 200 art collectors in the world ... they also make their collection available to the public, free of charge, through their non-profit gallery, Western Bridge. ... one piece out of every show is pledged to the University of Washington’s Henry Art Gallery [currently featuring MOTHA: Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects - Taking an inclusive approach to transgender, gender non-binary, and gender transgressive identities and expressions...] ... Bill True is chairman of Gull Industries. Founded by his father and grandfather as Gull Oil in 1959, the petroleum distribution business expanded into real estate, becoming one of the 25 largest companies in Washington State by 1998 ... Both Gull Industries and the Trues donate to a vari[ety of medical, educational, and arts-related causes, as well as to Democratic politics. The Trues are renowned for living with difficult work, raising children in a house with an Alfredo Jaar installation of Rwandan boys watching an execution. Sam Taylor-Wood’s video of a woman laughing and crying hysterically was in the kitchen, a Dan Flavin in the stairwell, a Tony Oursler under it. “We like edgy work,” she says, “work we’re challenged by, that makes people uncomfortable. I just love it when friends come in and say, ‘I hate that.’ It’s the biggest insult in the world not to have an opinion.”


Another Add: Here's an article that briefly mentions the Trues, if you're interested in the subject: Is Permanence Best? A New Model of Art Collecting | Oct 2002. Excerpt: The project works something like an investing group, something like a football pool: Members pony up $15,000 a year for three years, and Farris uses this money to buy art. The art cycles through members' homes every six months or so, and eventually the collection will either be donated to a museum or administered by a foundation that will loan it out to museums. The tax benefit of the donation--based on the value of the works at the time of the donation--will be divided among the members.

ArthurEdens ago

wtf