Art Starter Kit: Alternative Asset Investing, Art as Investment and Kahlo x Basquiat

The Art Starter Kit brings together three foundational modules that introduce you to the intersections of culture, markets, and creative expression. It begins with a comprehensive guide to alternative investing, offering a clear explanation of how assets outside traditional stocks and bonds operate, why they matter, and how global economic and cultural shifts have expanded the modern investment landscape. You’ll explore the evolution of the alternatives industry—from venture capital and private equity to real estate, commodities, ESG-driven strategies, and emerging arenas like crypto and Web3—learning the terminology, frameworks, and market forces that shape this growing sector.

Building from that foundation, the kit moves into art as an investment, revealing how the art market functions as both cultural barometer and financial ecosystem. You’ll learn how value is created through galleries, auctions, and digital platforms; how art funds and collectors approach portfolio building; and how emotional influence, historical significance, and scarcity dynamics shape price and demand. Through case studies ranging from Salvator Mundi to Beeple’s landmark NFT sales, you’ll see how art moves across time, technology, and trends to generate both meaning and market potential.

The kit culminates in an intimate study of Frida Kahlo and Jean-Michel Basquiat, two artists whose practices expose the deep connection between lived experience and artistic form. This module examines how trauma, resilience, identity, anatomy, and narrative operate within their work—Kahlo through medical self-portraiture and symbolic landscapes, Basquiat through raw mark-making, skeletal diagrams, and cultural critique. Together, their stories illustrate how the human body and emotional truth become vehicles for artistic and societal commentary.

With these three modules combined, the Art Starter Kit gives you a multidimensional understanding of art—as an alternative asset, as a market, and as a powerful expression of the human condition—equipping you to navigate both its cultural depth and its investment potential with curiosity, context, and confidence.

Kit includes: Art as Investment, Alternative Assets Investing and Kahlo x Basquiat (KxB is not sold individually)