Here's what $72.8 MILLION bucks will buy you ...

[eppur_se_muova]

US abstract artist Mark Rothko's 1950 work White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6660487.stm

These people are definitely living in a different world from the rest of us.

[Reverend_Smitty]

1. Tell you what...

I can make something surprisingly similar to that and I'll only charge you 36 million for it...It's a bargain!

[MonkeyFunk]

2. I love Rothko

and that's a very important piece. It's beautiful, too.

[Monk06]

5. Rothko was way ahead of his time and his paintings are beautiful...

especially under the strict lighting conditions
he insisted on as a condition of their exhibition.

As for the price. The painting would be worth $82 million
before the ink was dry on the check.

[mark414]

3. call me a philistine

or maybe just unaware

but what a bunch of horseshit

who bought it? i have a bridge that i want to sell him...

[Deja Q]

4. Oh come on! $72.8 million can't buy you the budget for a hollywood flick!

And comparing that pink and orange thing to the $71 million thrown at "The Dukes of Hazzard" (Well, it was $53 million but there was a lawsuit that cost 'em $18 mil on top of all that...), which one would you rather have?

The shite movie or the blocky scribble in garish colour?

Obviously, the painting. I could do better with color and imagery, but art is better than brainless b00bie flaunting any day of the week.

[crim son]

6. Boggles the mind.

It's even too late to be a novel idea, that particular work. It is certainly not worth comment.