However, it really costs you in the long run, because with rocks, there are always
a fair number of pieces that will not sell — usually because they are too small.
Not exact matches
To be
fair, there are a
number of chuckle - worthy sequences here (most notably when Ferrell's oddball character is shot with an animal tranquilizer dart), but this is overall not quite the hilarious
piece of work that the marketing materials have been promising.
If you can not do that, then puzzles from the same manufacturer that are equal in size and
number of puzzle
pieces should set up a
fair competition.
However, caviling aside, there is some new information in the
piece, namely, that funds that hold a
fair number of positions in illiquid securities appear to seek out favorable valuations to turn months with negative returns into positive results:
But, after this allocation, the rest
of the art world, from rank amateur to seasoned professional, stands a
fair and equal chance
of being chosen, each
piece being identified to the judging panel only by an anonymous
number.
The
fair was not lacking in impressive presentations by established galleries and artists: Berlin's Contemporary Fine Arts offered mixed media works by Anselm Reyle and Franz West alongside a
number of pieces by Günther Förg, including several
of his coloured abstractions and a monumental yet intimate colour self - portrait photograph.
A
fair number of the works in the show include statements by the artists, discussing the
pieces from the vantage point
of the present, and most
of them are pretty interesting.
London's White Cube, exhibiting at the
fair for the first time since 2011, sold a
number of pieces from a solo booth
of Cerith Wyn Evans's work on opening day.
2013 has brought with it a
number of exhibitions, art
fairs, and art
pieces that have challenged everything that came before them.
The
piece, by Sonja van Renssen, is called Getting a
fair deal (you can download the pdf here), and in addition to Athanasiou it quotes a
number of other key figures in the current debate.