{"id":14183,"date":"2026-04-22T16:38:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14183"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:41:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:41:48","slug":"let-art-improve-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/22\/let-art-improve-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Let art improve your life.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.culturedmag.com\/article\/2025\/12\/26\/art-collecting-advice-how-to-buy-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from CULTURED<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">12 Collectors on How to Buy Art That Actually Has Staying Power<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>From buying books before art to finding dealers who share your sensibility, these are the rules that celebrated collectors live by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.culturedmag.com\/@\/julia-halperin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Julia Halperin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_63748\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/culturedmag.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/uploads\/2025\/08\/18104412\/250814_GINDI_CULTURED_JAMES_FREY_0058_flat-e1765904590153.jpg\" alt=\"Author James Frey at home in Pound Ridge\" class=\"wp-image-63748\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">James Frey at home in Pound Ridge with Aaron Young\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Arc Light (Moscow Performance)<\/em>, 2008. Photography by Maegan Gindi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPlenty of collectors play the financial game, and so have I. But it took away from the joy of art for me, the emotion. The market will do what it does. Buy what you love. Let it make your life better.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.culturedmag.com\/article\/2025\/08\/22\/art-james-frey-author-art-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>James Frey<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.culturedmag.com\/article\/2025\/12\/26\/art-collecting-advice-how-to-buy-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to read other collectors&#8217; advice at CULTURED<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CULTURED 12 Collectors on How to Buy Art That Actually Has Staying Power From buying books before art to finding dealers who share your sensibility, these are the rules that celebrated collectors live by. by Julia Halperin \u201cPlenty of collectors play the financial game, and so have I. But it took away from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14184,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14183\/revisions\/14184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}