I've been to a few galleries here, but have wanted to do First Thursday ever since we moved here and just haven't been able. Finally, last week, we went to check it out.
There's a wide variety of contemporary art represented, including sculpture, blown glass, and painting. We probably visited less than a third of all the galleries but there were some neat artistic concepts that I hadn't seen before. Some of the art was strange, some was neat, some was uninteresting, and some was impressive. Some of the galleries were very busy and, being a bit small, became crowded. Some of the other people seemed to be art connoisseurs, but not the majority. I really enjoyed going and am looking forward to going back and seeing some of the galleries we missed.
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I heard a piece on NPR recently about a couple who started collecting a certain kind of art that they could buy for really cheap (it was 19th Century African-American art, which at the time they started collecting it was obscure and under-studied) and then in recent years it's become one of the frontiers of museum collection and art history work so they were able to sell some of their pieces for like millions (after paying, I don't know, a few hundred or a few thousand for most of them.)
Yeah, buying and selling art could be very lucrative if you know what you're doing or are lucky.
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