"They all operated on the assumption that you just don't have to pay sales tax on expensive art."
It's the perfect museum for a city like Naples - intimate, pristinely elegant, with very expensive art.
Their modish house has expensive modern art but no bookshelves.
The most expensive art has also been the most volatile.
She had been afraid that in his study here, surrounded by all his expensive art objects, it would look shabby.
To the Editor: I am all in favor of spectacular and expensive art.
Inside the company's headquarters a few miles away, the walls were lined with expensive art.
The problems for opera will be less physical than financial: how to pay for a notoriously expensive art with only 600 seats to sell.
But Ms. Lansing soon discovered that she didn't care much about collecting expensive art.
It's a motto that practitioners and fans of even the more expensive art forms appear to understand.