"Uh, it might not be the right time. Sorry, I still want to compete for the position of chief curator for the Japanese Pavilion at the next Venice Biennale, it's really hard to make time..."
With Miss Elina's arrival, all the magazine's shareholders were present.
The art world's big shots gathered.
Any ambitious art student walking into this conference room might faint from excitement.
An artist's career needs benefactors.
And every shareholder present here was such a benefactor.
Art professors, art experts, top curators... Some of them also served as academicians of the French Academy or judges for the Turner Watercolor Award.
Any one of them, once outside, could make others soar and skip ten years of detours with just a snap of their fingers.
The shareholder structure of "Oil Painting" magazine is quite scattered.
