NEW YORK - Green-Wood Cemetery Builds a Collection

For the last four years, Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, the 170-year-old resting place of entombed luminaries from  Boss Tweed to Leonard Bernstein and the original Brooks brothers, has been acquiring paintings created by the artists including Baquiat -- both legendary and obscure -- who have taken up permanent residence.

Green-Wood Cemetery Builds a Collection (The New York Times)

The nonprofit cemetery has a limited annual budget of $13 million for operations, maintenance, and the restoration of monuments, but has so far managed to allocate some $250,000 for various paintings. "The economic downturn is horrible, but it has made a lot of art more affordable, so we're hoping to keep acquiring," said Richard J. Moylan, the president of Green-Wood.

Green-Wood Cemetery Turned Art Collector (ARTINFO)