"If you have to donate billions to usher in victory, then don't want this victory."

CDX's gallerist applauded, spat in a very slight voice, "If my child were doing that, I would indeed put her in the cellar and hang her up and smoke." ”

"Alas......"

Haichao's applause covered up his faint sigh.

"But you're right, Larry, today, there's no one left to beat her. We can only bum and applaud weakly like poor bees whirling around the queen. ”

One by one, the artists in the front row stood up and gave Miss Anna their admiration and applause.

Even Sir Brown.

No one knows how this man, who has only been the king of infinite brilliance for five minutes, feels when he applauds at this moment.

It must be quite gloomy.

Nobody wants to explore.

Everyone avoided the low-pressure air mass around him with great interest, leaving him a little quiet private space.

"Let's go, I should go up too."

Cao Xuan sorted out the speech in his hand, he waved his hand, and refused Lao Yang's support.

"Forget it, the little girl in a wheelchair insisted on walking up by herself, I want to still tremble, and I will hang down in a gust of wind, doesn't it seem too useless?"

The old gentleman's competitive childlike nature has come out again.

He raised his neck.

He strode in all directions and walked towards the podium.

Hey, don't say it yet.

The legs and feet are really neat.

Cao Xuan walked to the side of the stairs and waited a little, and Anna, who was slowly walking down one step at a time, took the initiative to stretch out her arm.

"That's a good point. Miss, do you need my help to show your chivalry? If you don't feel too old. ”

Cao Lao asked with a smile in his heart.

It's harder to go down a step than to go up.

Coupled with the fact that she had been standing on the stage for so long, Anna really felt like she was about to fall.

She hesitated briefly for a few seconds.

I estimated the possibility of rolling down with the old man, and looked at the little old man's ruddy face.

"Thank you. You're younger than a lot of people look. ”

She pursed her lips and smiled, and also reached out to hold Cao Xuan's arm that expressed obvious kindness.

There was another round of applause in the audience, and the flashing lights were in one piece.

Cao Xuan looks like a dry old grandfather, but his height is actually quite tall.

When he was young, he was the kind of tall and handsome guy on the beach that often appeared in standard old Hong Kong movies.

People are old.

The height will shrink, but the old man's back is not serious.

Anna is also a tall type.

In addition, she wears flat shoes, so the two generations of the old and the young stand together almost on one side, and they are quite photogenic.

It's impossible to tell who is helping whom and who is saving whom.

It is quite a historical handshake between the "Eastern and Western art worlds" that spans the 70-year age difference, and the photojournalists immediately captured this milestone-like shot.

Miss Elena knows.

Cao Xuan will come to help herself, but it is more of a way to support her statement and show goodwill.

The two men only took a few symbolic steps.

Immediately, they were snatched away by their respective assistants and secretaries, who were waiting aside, and their hearts were about to stop.

"Miss, I shouldn't interfere with your decision, but for such a big matter, you really should discuss it with me and the butler Mr. Adlar in advance."

Secretary Elliot grabbed Anna's arm, handed her a prepared cane, and whispered in the woman's ear.

Even if it's a personal secretary.

She only knew that Anna insisted on going to the podium by herself today, but she didn't know that the other party had made up her mind to donate tens of thousands of family collections and build a public museum.

Just now, Elliot was just as shocked and stunned as many people present.

"Think so, Elliot."

"Every year, all kinds of insurance and maintenance are a lot of expenses. I never planned to sell them anyway. By handing over these artworks to the family foundation, the proceeds from the exhibition can be used to cover the daily maintenance and insurance costs, and if there is a profit and donations, you can even continue to buy new artworks. I think it's a good deal, isn't it? The Getty Center, the Rockefeller Foundation, aren't they all modeled on? ”

Anna teased with a smile.

Miss Secretary was unhappy and didn't want to talk.

Joke.

The cost of building a large museum alone is enough to pay the insurance for many years.

Without saying a word, Elliot helped Anna to her seat.

The crowd of people who wanted to gather around were pushed away by the waves that parted and were pushed away by the invisible light on Anna's body.

"Why?"

As he walked past Sir Brown, the old gentleman asked with a blank gaze on the stage.

His voice was as soft as a dream.

But Anna heard it anyway and knew that the other party was talking to her.

"You just said that every glorious dynasty will collapse, but that is not today." Anna looked at Cao Xuan, who had re-walked to the rostrum, and said lightly, "You're right, today is the day of the collapse of the Elena family's art dynasty. but it is not the day of the enthronement. Mr. Brown, maybe one day you will be able to achieve your ambition. But it's a pity—"

"Not here, not today."

——

"There are talented people in the country."

Cao Xuan looked at the reverent and enthusiastic eyes in the entire venue, and had a very strange feeling in his heart.

He had seen the same look countless times in his life.

This time it's different.

He knew that the eyes in the audience were not looking at him, and most of them were still immersed in Miss Elena's shocking speech, unable to extricate themselves.

Ninety-nine percent of people will think that Anna's brain is wrong, and the loser can't imagine it.

Only he has seen the ups and downs of a hundred years, and the old and strong Cao Xuan doesn't think so.

He guessed that Miss Elena might be willing to take out the shares of "Oil Painting" in her hand and use it to win over the leading figures in the art world.

But I didn't expect it.

The other party is more resolute, more willing, and more courageous than he imagined.

directly donated the vast collection of art that has been passed down by the family for hundreds of years, and all of them without frowning.

Not for a specific group, but for all.

Did Anna lose?

The Elena family was already destined to be the result of only holding piles of gold coins and gradually losing their influence.

Right now.

was directly brought to life by Anna.

At the peak of her grandfather's influence, it was not much stronger than this.

And the Habsburg family's direct heirs, who are now racing drivers or political activists, may not have more influence than she alone.

If influence is bought with money.

Nelson Rockefeller would not have lost the election repeatedly, and would have been one step away from the presidency's supremacy throughout his life.

(Note: Former Vice President of the United States, the most re-elected governor of New York in history.) However, he started as an artist and was the director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He is also the heir to the oil family, which was once the richest man. It is repeatedly mentioned in the memoirs of many dignitaries that he is very capable and long-sleeved. But because the family is so rich, he is the kind of super boy-like character. There is a lack of decisiveness and ruthlessness in making desperate bets at important political junctures. So life or death is not to choose Nixon, who was born from the grassroots. ）

She is just an art palace that has been dusted down from her home and announced that it is open to the public.

It's like the famous "exquisite chess game" in Jin Yong's martial arts, filling in one's breath, and then taking root all over the plate.

As for the money?

Is there any difference between money that cannot be spent in ten centuries and money that cannot be spent in a hundred centuries in people's lives?

And even if you have mountains of gold and silver in your hands, who can really meet the changes in a hundred years?

14,000 works of art can be used to revive the family's voice.

Make a lot of money.

Blood earned.

"It's really skillful, and it's really powerful." Cao Xuan could only sigh and sigh in his heart.

He waited a little longer, and then slowly spoke: "I suddenly feel really old. When people get old, the most significant characteristic is that they feel that they can't keep up with the pace of the times. ”

"What a speech. If you want me to talk about it, I guess I can't say it. ”

Cao Xuan spoke.

The venue finally calmed down.

"Lady Elena, you have put me, poor little old man, in an awkward position, like the helpless and hesitant pastor speaker who was scheduled to appear in front of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 after Martin Luther King's century speech "I Have a Dream". Every time I saw a TV recap, I felt embarrassed for that gentleman. ”

"Luckily, though. Every art exhibition and every talk I have held has been quite successful, better than I imagined. Because I have a secret, a secret that is not taught. Now, I can share it with everyone. ”

The old man smiled mysteriously and raised his eyebrows.

Everyone in the room listened attentively.

Even Gao Guxuan and them, their heartbeats were beating faster, and they exchanged a fiery look.

Art exhibitions are high-cost, high-risk, high-reward things.

A big exhibition can cost as little as millions.

There are many super exhibitions like Hirst's "Gracy Palace Exhibition", which cost tens of millions of pounds in materials and labor alone, and occasionally appear.

The exhibition was a success.

All the costs can be doubled, the value of the artists themselves has skyrocketed, and the gallerists have made a lot of money, not to mention buying islands and planes.

But if the exhibition fails, it will make people vomit blood.

spent tens of millions of dollars to hold an exhibition, invited all kinds of celebrity critics to come and see, and was scolded for the bloody spurt.

Not only did the cost of the exhibition lose out, but when it was calculated inside and out, the banknotes were spilled out in piles, and as a result, the value of their own cash cow fell instead.

Then I'm really depressed and want to eat.

Smash it a few more times.

Intercontinental Gallery also had to go bankrupt.

This is where Mars Gallery's current predicament stems.

Mars III doesn't like to linger like this, he really wants to smash the pot and sell iron, and come up with 50 million, or even 100 million euros.

To hold a world-class super exhibition, people grit their teeth, sell blood, and do it with their belts.

If only you could come up with a cash cow.

The Mars Gallery shook again.

But it can afford to do it.

If such a big exhibition is smashed, even if it is not smashed, as long as it is not explosive enough, the cost will not be recovered.

The Mars Gallery will be able to declare its closure completely.

What are the possibilities of using hundreds of millions of euros to build the next Hearst?

No more than 20 percent, maybe no more than 10 percent.

So it's better to keep going like this.

That's why even the world's number one gallerist, like Gagosian, bends down to hug the thighs of Sir Brown's top critic.

Is there really a secret to this kind of thing?

And how can there be a secret!

Others dared to brag so unashamedly in front of Gao Guxuan and them.

They will definitely be beaten out as fearless liars of the ignorant.

But instead of the master on stage now.

Thinking about this evergreen in the beauty world, who can be called a brilliant and incomparably successful career, they are still willing to believe in two points in their hearts.

Everyone quietly glanced at each other, and then turned their heads away in disgust, and suddenly felt that each other was very eyesore.

Ah! Master Cao is also old and confused, how can this kind of thing be said publicly? Let's have a private drinking party, and you can tell me quietly that I am alone! How can the other bitches who are bewitching sluts be qualified to listen to it.

"The secret is to lower expectations." The little old man winked at the camera.

Poof!

The audience was silent for two seconds, and then burst into laughter, almost knocking off the entire roof of the New Art Center.

Some even burst into tears of laughter.

"Wow! I like him, this old man is so funny! ”

"Very affectionate, it feels like my grandfather."

"I heard that he and Picasso knew each other, and I thought that such a highly regarded artist would be either Picasso's unsmiling appearance in interviews, or Henry Bull's crazy and incomprehensible appearance, but I didn't expect him to be so interesting."

Gu Weijing, who was in front of the screen, was also shocked by Mr. Cao's funny opening remarks.

He was still worried.

After that Miss Elena takes the stage, it will be difficult for Cao Xuan to catch the scene.

Now it seems.

The old man is young, but he can cope well.

Worried about Mr. Cao, he was really a little worried, and he didn't know that the sky was thick.

As a matter of fact.

If it is purely a typhoon, it is more than the incendiary power of the speech to capture people's hearts.

Even though he is several generations older, Cao Xuan is still slightly inferior to Miss Anna just now.

Everyone present was Gagosian and Sir Brown...... None compare.

One is the impression of the public image plus points.

IT'S NOT THAT CAO XUAN'S IMAGE IS BAD, BUT ANNA'S STAGE IMAGE IS TOO BUGGY.

You can't force people to ask the white-haired old man who is nearly 100 years old and the young lady who is in the prime of life to catch people's attention in front of the camera.

It's no longer a question of academic level or ability to speak.

Rather, it is an unreasonable dimensionality reduction attack from biological instinct.

If you dig out Einstein and move it over, it may not be easy to do it.

Another more important reason is the difference in education and social positioning.

Sir Brown, after all, is only a scholar or an artist.

Cao Xuan's words and deeds taught by the temperament of the literati were more restrained.

And the Elena family was once one of the core rulers of the old era in Europe.

Historically, they have been known for their eloquence and long-sleeved dancing in the palace struggles with various salons as the main body.

Speech is almost a basic skill for Western-style politicians.

Even though they have long since faded out of the political arena, without their titles, the vast empire has disappeared in the rolling tide of war.

But Anna's family education since she was a child, and the position of her elders on her.

Or is it completely different.

Not every aunt will give her niece a shotgun and let her choose to be Anne Boleyn or Ye Huang.

Therefore.

In fact, since she was a child, a certain part of her body has been preparing to be on the stage and shine under the attention of the world.

Anna has been preparing for this for twenty years.

So the moment she stepped up to the podium and spat out the first words from between her lips, it became as grand and passionate as the siren's beautiful singing.

Firmly grasped everyone's eyes, everyone's heart.

Cao Xuan's speech was a completely different feeling.

Very friendly.

There is no big artist's shelf at all.

It is humorous and humble, and it grabs the audience's attention without knowing it.

"It's not a joke. Don't expect your speech, your art exhibition, how successful it will be, how much money it will make, whether it will go down in history. ”

"Think more about what you can give, not what you receive. Think more about whether you can impress the audience, whether you can give them a happy mood, whether you can have more peace in everyone's hearts, and let everyone think more deeply about the times. I am not an artist in the auction rankings. ”

"When giving becomes giving, greed becomes selflessness. Then if you look at the world, it will be very different. That's really the secret of my career. ”

"My teacher taught me not to think about how many people come to your exhibition, but to think about what you can give to each person who comes to the exhibition. This is the virtue of a gentleman in the East. ”

Cao Xuan's eyes were bright.

He said seriously: "Believe me, people with such a mentality do things, and the results are usually not too bad." ”

"The beauty of precipitation art, the nostalgia of home and country, and the torrent of the times can all be integrated into a small brush, and everyone can see a little projection of ripples in their hearts at the art exhibition - this is the slogan of my disciple Downing and CDX Gallery to hold the "Hope of the Mountains" art exhibition in London in the second half of this year."

"I'm looking forward to whether I can do it or not, please help me supervise."

Everyone applauded.

Whether it is Cao Xuan or Tang Ning, they all belong to the kind of famous top painters, and they are worthy of these masters to give this face.

"Tang Ning, the sky-high artist who just broke the record of personal unit price and auction total at the Xiangjiang auction at the beginning of this year?"

"Yes, yes, she is Cao Xuan's first doorman, you don't know, right, the village has just been connected?"

Some netizens couldn't help but joke.

"Downing is going to open a new solo art exhibition again? This is striking while the iron is hot, and we want to create another good story. Expectation, anticipation. ”

"Running in London, it sounds like a lot of fun."

"Cao Xuan announced the closure of the pen a few years ago, and now, it's time to bring newcomers, judging from the price trend and exposure in recent years, there is a high probability that she will be pushed. Alas, I thought that Lin Tao, who was backed by CAFA, would have a chance. ”

"People have said in interviews that they are Mr. Cao's successors, if you don't push her, who will you push if you want the old man? Lin Tao is the oldest, but his current value should be much worse than his little junior sister. The first person in Dongxia who did not become Gao Guxuan at the beginning did make Mr. Lin lose a lot from the perspective of value. ”

"Lin Tao is an art investment teacher, and Tang Ning was brought out by the old man himself, not a concept. From a long time ago, the critics have probably decided that this is the one who takes over the old man's class, and she is the real prince. ”

Netizens in the comment area discussed with great interest.

In the venue, Lao Yang, the assistant in the front row, also slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

Thankfully, the bet was correct.

There are awkwardness in small things, but in major things, Old Man Cao still takes care of Tang Ning.

It should be carried out, and it will still be carried on this occasion.

In the lens, the spotlight is given to Downing.

Tang Ning stood up and waved his hand to the audience and peers who applauded her.

Of course.

She didn't get the opportunity to speak on stage in person, but under the influence of her teacher, she also got a long shot of several seconds.

In terms of the exposure effect of the annual meeting, it has almost reached the same treatment as Elvis Presley.

And Downing, from the bottom of his bones, are two completely opposite extremes to the homeless Hunter Bull in the venue.

She is confident that her public image and self-marketing skills are not as good as Anna's, but they are also much, much better than Boole.

Since his debut, Tang Ning has been the kind of courtesan.

Don't get me wrong.

This is not a pejorative term.

In the early twentieth century, when it was first invented, the courtesan was a complete compliment, and it was used by the New York tabloids to praise gossip stars like the daughter of the rubber king.

It was first introduced to the Eastern Xia.

It is also used by the "Declaration" to describe the ladies who are noble-born, well-educated, and chased by people in social situations.

Representatives of courtesans.

One south and one north, one light and one thick, south and north.

Whether it is Tang Ying, who made Song Ziwen write a lot of love letters, or Lu Xiaoman, who is more famous and reunited with Xu Zhimo, the people who can make newspapers chase in social occasions that year are all serious famous ladies.

And Tang Ning is confident that she has both Tang Ying's lightness and Lu Xiaoman's richness.

It is a typical example of poetry and books in the belly.

She enjoys the ups and downs of the flashing lights around her, leaving the most artist-like figure to everyone.

He exhaled with a smile and looked at the stage.

The world's cameras were on her.

Her teachers are making a name for herself, the gallerists of Gagosian, Lisson, PACE, CDX, Sir Brown, including Miss Elena, who has just stirred up the world's arts.

Everyone was politely applauding her.

The teacher still favored me.

She believes that the day not far away. She was able to sit in the first row, between them, and be one of the top art spectacles.

And none of this can be stopped by a who jumped out of Yangon.

Never.

(End of chapter)