So, Modern Art. The game, not the y'know. Art.
Modern Art the game is a simple card game involving bidding for artworks by fictional people. Each player takes the role of an art gallery in a major 'modern art' city. I like being Paris, Tokyo or New York. Bilbao and Berlin(?) are also available.
The game has four rounds or 'seasons' in which you use the cards (artworks) you have in your hand to drive prices up, and make money from artworks you've bought from your friends. The game has little screens so you can hide your money from the others and pretend you're doing worse than you are. If an artist is very popular one season, it drives their value up for the next one, and if they are consistently popular well. It gets exciting.
That was all preamble. I really want to say that this game is fun in and of itself, but it's the most fun when I play it with Seraph.
It's a combination of things, really. Seraph and I both get excited about bidding in open auctions, and are both possessed of a driving need to win auctions we are bidding on. The second part of that is that we both get the giggles from the utter ridiculosity of bidding up a piece of card with a crappy made up artwork printed on it, for no good reason.
So. Imagine if you will, the other night. Seraph, his wife, Conan, Lee and I all getting red faced with the lack of oxygen because someone just paid 20 thousand dollars for a worthless Ktypto.
Oh! Or the bit when V and Lee got caught in a bidding war for a double Yoko, that looked like it would make 20 per piece tops. The bidding started with me and Conan laughing offering 1 or 2 thou and they got up to 70 thou!
Ok, maybe you had to be there.
But Conan did say that he'd never enjoyed the game as much as he did when he played with Seraph and me.
In conclusion Seraph + Modern Art = Love.
Coming soon, other stuff that I enjoy most with a particular person: a feel good week of fluff blogging!
Interested in Modern Art? Why don't you buy it?
Posted by jenni at April 16, 2007 05:23 PM