Murals
Asking Price
Can murals increase the chance that you might receive the asking price sale on your expensive condo? Maybe so — at least for Rush Limbaugh. He bought his apartment for $5 million in 1994 and he received just below the asking price recently on his $12.95 million dollar Fifth Avenue, NYC condo. He had put it up for sale in February for $13.95 million and then lowered the price to $12.95. The contract was said to have been for $11 million but there will also be heavy closing and transfer taxes involved for both NYC and NY state. Limbaugh has moved to Florida to escape the high NY taxes. Florida…
Seeing some of Summer’s Bounties
Are you enjoying the bounties of fresh summer vegetables and produce? Here’s a realistic mural in downtown Wilmington, OH that depicts just this. I like its appreciation for community gardening and it’s realistic quality. It reminds me of some of the murals you might see in Philadelphia (a whole other post will be coming on that later). Or if you don’t have a garden and it’s too hot to grow produce, here’s another “cool” solution — a succulent mural in Pasadena. Both projects help to beautify their neighborhoods. The succulent mural was the second commissioned piece of artwork as a part of the Neighborhood Enhancement Mural Program but unfortunately, the…
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Giving it Up for the GSA…
…and other federal artistic watchdogs, like the “florist-in-chief.” What does this mean? Well, firstly, there was a fascinating article in Washington Post that describes how the GSA (General Services Administration — a federal watchdog agency) is on a hunt to recover “lost” artwork from the Depression, which was created as part of the WPA (New Deal Works Progress Administration), to help artists have employment and document historical art. At the time, the government paid artists up to $42 a week. This was a large amount back then and a life preserver during our nation’s worst financial crisis. Over 20,000 works of art were created in response. The value of these…
