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Lisa

The Intrepid Art Collector

About Me

I'm an arts writer based in Montreal and New York, and need a 12-step program to stop buying photography. Art collectors (as opposed to people who can buy one or two pictures, then stop) were usually obsessive packrats even as children. Show me anyone with a world-class Picasso collection, and I'll show you someone who still has boxes of Beanie Babies and baseball cards in his parents' garage.My first book, The Intrepid Art Collector , will be in bookstores on October 24.
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My Interests

Art, travel (whether exotic or armchair), interior design (show houses, anyone?), Monty Python, chocolate. I write about art and design and am always looking for new things that surprise me.

I'd like to meet:

People who enjoy learning new things -- especially oddball, offbeat things. Also, artists, art addicts, and design enthusiasts who mentally rearrange the furniture of every room they go into.

Music:

Anything from Memphis or New Orleans

Movies:

Annie Hall, Marx Brothers, Some Like It Hot, and [insert bleak Swedish film here to make me sound intellectual].

Television:

If I were a Neilson family, HGTV would be the number 1 network.

Books:

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, "Far Side" cartoons, The Great Gatsby (I read it every August), shelter porn. There's no category here for favorite magazines, but that's my other addiction.

My Blog

MY BLOG LIVES ELSEWHERE...

For art news, reviews, and adventures in the art market, check out my other blog, The Intrepid Art Collector. It has a bulletin board where artists can post their events. Also, collectors can email qu...
Posted by Lisa on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 07:00:00 PST