Is the art you live with different then the art you love

Much of the art I love is too expensive, but some of the art I live with is cool. I have a Tracey Emin story she wrote for me that wants framing, but cannot afford this just now.

Posters are good, esp. Gonzalez-Torres multiples and someone sent me a Takashi Murakami/Cartier Foundation one last week which now has pride of place.

Above my couch, a window, some Chinese lanterns, little piles of weirdly juxtaposed objects (Bo-tan Rice Candy boxes, blue gel squares, interesting club flyers, dust).

suzy, there is takashi murakami exhibition at the serpentine. i am on my way there now actually!

on my wall: polish movie posters, poster from sigmar polke exhibit, poster from john cohen (photo) exhibit. these days i'm more enamored of singer-sargent and hammershoi but damned if i can find a nice large print of either.

yes it is because i still haven't worked out how i'm going to be able to contact roe etheridge

suzy can you work yr magic art world connections :-)

One difference for me, again linking back to the Serpentine gallery, in that I saw a Bridget Riley show there. I love her work, but absolutely couldn't live with her black and white work at all.

How was the Murakami, Gareth? I'm quite tempted to go to that too, despite/because of the Guardian critic (I think it was) naming it as the worst show of the year.

Above my couch: two smallish horned african masks, from the Yoruba/Benin region, but possibly Chokwe. An original silver print of a photo my friend took in Detroit, of an arch on an old theater.

On walls: Dali print of a woman looking out a cross-shaped window, from the beginning of his more surrealist period. Various artwork purchased from various arists. A painting I did in elementary school that was sent to Japan for seven years for an exhibition (they put it in a lovely frame, matted it and sent it back when I was in high school). A great photo I took of an old girlfriend.

I love the art that I have. I'd like some larger paintings; an El Lissitzky would be nice. I don't really feel that I'm lacking, though.

on walls - a couple of small Odilon Redon prints that I bought for cheap at the smithsonian gift shop & then decided several years later that they were not very good prints so I collaged over parts of them myself, my favorite includes pictures of Daft Punk in their fancy new robot helmets. Oh, and I've got a postcard w/a photo of the Supreme Court tacked up, and one of a medieval painting of Mary Magdalene, and a row of three Toulouse-Lautrec prints, because I put stickers (from a concert I saw in 97) onto one so the man is saying "PAVEMENT" and the woman, "Wowee Zowee!" I plan to do arts and crafts in the next few weeks and hopefully put up some more random junk.