Gold!

“Gold has lost its prestige,” says Rico Franses, an art history professor at the American University of Beirut. That’s an interesting opinion when gold is at record-breaking prices — it jumped 28% in 2010 to $1,400 an ounce — but Franses, keynote speaker at this Boston art symposium, insists that our modern dollar fixation has actually devalued the precious metal.

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Gold!