Do people actually buy art because of the artist’s skin colour? Very weird thing to do.

These jerks talk about people flipping art - when they know their galleries are manipulating the hell out of the originals at auctions... by the way - all the galleries that represent them... owned by rich American white families...

I do find it racist and ridiculous he points out Chinese and Europeans when all his stuff at comic con - i mean complex con is in the US - and all bought up by sneakerheads who flip that shit silly the next second on ebay. They are in line with the items and also making a post on ebay at the same time! Ha!

Honestly I think most of these new artists are seeing their markets peak and are now getting pissy with everyone. Hebru's market peaked years ago in my opinion. Unfortunately these american galleries milked the crap out of these guys way too soon. These artist knew this tho. So what's the big deal?

I think Hebru will really regret posting that post. I thought a lot of his market was in China?

Oh let's not forget Kehinde Wiley using Chinese workers to make his originals.... 
nymag.com/arts/art/rules/kehinde-wiley-2012-4/

Always thought of this guy’s work as garbage. Still do.

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Completely missed the point.  He's talking about black artists using black/African imagery that is being purchased by people who don't give a shit about any of it just to flip.  As a black person myself, I completely feel where he's coming from.  

What about all those people who flip Murakami and Nara that use asian/Japanese superflat movement images and culture...

I think once you partake in complexcon multiple times - selling items you know will be flipped by anyone on eBay... this statement is bs. He’s part of flipping and he knows it. If he wants to call anyone out he should call out the big galleries who are really manipulating prices at extreme levels - but he doesn’t have the guts to do that. It will kill his career in a second so he goes after race...

This is such a tricky subject, but I have to admit I find it slightly ridiculous to make it about race.
It's just the art market.
People buy and sell all sorts of art, for all sorts of reasons... but mostly profit.

Would it be OK for black collectors to flip the work because they understand it better? Or would black collectors never flip it? Both these ideas are clearly wrong. Collectors are collectors and flippers flip. Their colour doesn't come into it.

And to equate it to BLM, or exploiting black people, just smacks of someone with an over-inflated opinion of their work's importance. If there's demand for their work, great, but other people are going to look to profit from it too. That's just a fact of life for all successful artists.

For the record, the original post is from Basil Kincaid. This is his philosophy. Whether it is Hebru's is another matter. I imagine he's never heard it said before and it chimed with something that's been eating at him.

www.instagram.com/basilkincaid

I have works in my collection that I got for hundreds of dollars. A couple of those works are now worth 5 figures easy but you don’t see me running to cash in.
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A lot of people got the idea of investing in art all backwards. If you fuck with black art and black artists ideally you’re investing so that we can help build the vision of a better future reality than the one we currently share.
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If you’re in black art to profit off of our labor and exploit our genius then you are literally a reflection of everything we’re fighting against.
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This is why I’m so picky with who gets my original work.
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Fuck the money. Align yourself with collectors that believe in your journey and contributions to culture.
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To the artists reading this. Research who’s getting your work and know that all money ain’t good money. Align with people that really believe in you and want to support your life as an artist.

He can’t be that picky, you can buy his original work quite easily for a few thousand dollars. Some are even up on Artsy where he has the grand total of 330 followers. Think this guy is a little bit deluded about his own importance and worrying about a problem that doesn’t really exist for him.

Lots of outspoken BLM artist have been totally silent during the Stop Asian hate movement. Hebru and Jammie Holmes and bunch of these artists have been dead silent during this movement. To add the Chinese part is really not ok. It’s a racist statement from uneducated artists who are asking for equality but are ironically racist themselves.

Many of these artists have also been riding the BLM movement and treating collectors like shit as well - of all colors. All these $12-17k prints these artist/ are setting for themselves with their galleries - after only breaking out less than a year... give me a break. These guys are milking it more than anyone else and many are just making the same art over and over. Nothing new.

Many of the BLM artist have made a fortune off this movement thinking they are owed... I’m sorry but then pay the older African American artists who missed out for decades. Hand them the money... these young artist are not owed anything... no matter what color. Honestly I have found Native American artists, Hispanic artists and Muslim artists being more forgot and ignored than anyone.

Calling out your biggest market is probably not the smartest thing for any artist. China can easily ban him and they will - if he continues to call them out. That will kill his market or any new artist in a second. It’s incredibly stupid to call out China and all of Europe for any artist - of any color.

I don't get it. Black artists are being purchased to flip because they are flippable at the moment. So are a ton of hispanic/asian/white artists.

How is that different from using any imagery (regardless of color), being purchased by people who don't give a shit about any of it just to flip?

or care, that's the beautiful think about rational capitalism it really only cares about green. 

His art has nothing to do with it.  And really who cares what you think?  I don't own any of his stuff but see no difference between his art and many of the others who are talked about on here.  

Flip in peace, bro.