Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota then Oxford College in Minnesota and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit and are being impacted by gasoline prices food distribution businesses chemical business.

The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact transform both and create a third thing.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is can do or is worth on an existential alchemical level.