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Rich People Spending Money on Icky Things

Yuck. I’m glad I’m not rich. I might be persuaded to buy a bar of soap.

BASEL, Switzerland (Reuters) — Perhaps the oddest piece of work at Art Basel is a bar of soap, displayed on a square of black velvet, purportedly made from Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s fat, removed during liposuction.

Gianni Monti’s work called ‘Clean Hands’ — the title is a play on the name of an anti-Mafia group — sold in less than an hour for 15,000 euros ($18,000) to a private Swiss collector, according to Monti’s Galerie Nicola von Senger of Zurich.

The work from the Swiss-based Italian has shock value with a twist, but Monti is not alone reveling in super-charged sales this week at Art Basel, the world’s largest annual art fair where 275 dealers in modern and contemporary art display their wares making it a mecca for over 50,000 collectors and curators.

“People with spare cash don’t know where to put their money. When the bond market fizzled earlier this year, I started getting a lot more interest from wealthy clients,” said Arthur Solway, director at James Cohan Gallery in New York.

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2 responses to “Rich People Spending Money on Icky Things”

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    Jo

    Rule number one – Don’t talk about Fight Club.

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    Michael

    Dang, I need to rent that movie.

    Was there soap in the movie?

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Michael, a sinner saved by grace, sharing what the good Lord has shared with me.

Solomon, in the book of Ecclesiastes, said, “I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.”

If you’re not living for the glory of God, then what you’re doing is meaningless, no matter what it is. Living for God gives life meaning, and enjoying a “chasing after the wind” is a gift from God. I’m doing what I can to enjoy this gift daily.

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