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Money Talks by Slate Money: You Should Buy Art

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4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this Money Talks, Bianca Bosker, author of “Get the Picture,” chats with Felix Salmon about her adventures going undercover in the fine art world. Bianca worked as a museum security guard and gallery assistant, among other gigs, and got an inside peak at the smoke and mirrors of creating, collecting, and curating. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and an additional segment of our show every week. You’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Slate Money. Sign up now at slate.com/moneyplus to help support our work. Podcast production by Jared Downing and Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Money Talks from Slate. I'm Felix Sam and Axios and I'm here with Bianca Boska.

0:22.0

Thank you. It's happy to be here. Bianca Basker. Thank you.

0:23.0

It's happy to be here.

0:24.0

Bianca introduces of who are you?

0:27.0

I'm Bianca Basker.

0:28.0

I'm an author and a journalist.

0:30.0

I'm a contributing writer at the Atlantic magazine,

0:32.0

the author of the book Cork Dork, and the author most recently of the book Get the Picture.

0:37.0

So for your first book about the wine world, you immersed yourself in the wine world, and it's all very first person and all about how you learned about it.

0:45.2

This book is basically the same only it's about the art world and you immersed yourself by working with galleries,

0:51.2

you worked with Julie Curtis who's quite a famous artist, you worked at a very famous museum, the Guggenheim.

0:57.0

So we're going to talk about all of that coming up on, money. Money.

1:04.0

At McDonald's, we can't make the days of January go quicker.

1:10.0

And we can't make it so the sun is always shining at this time of year.

1:16.0

But we can give you little January perks to brighten up your days.

1:20.0

Ten of them actually.

1:21.0

Introducing McDonald's 10 days of January offers. That's 10 days of 10 different offers starting from the 15th of January.

1:27.7

From 6 McNuggets for 99P to a Big Mac for just 149, exclusively on the McDonald's

1:32.4

app.

1:33.0

18 plus until 24th of January, one time use only.

1:36.6

Restrictions apply, participating restaurants only, minimums, men may apply.

1:39.6

You were here in this very studio I believe when Cork Dook came out and we had a great time talking about wine and then you emailed me to say you were doing a follow-up about the only thing I love

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