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The Price of Everything
2018 · Film · documentary · 98 min
Directed by Nathaniel Kahn
Featuring collectors, dealers, auctioneers and a rich range of artists, including market darlings George Condo, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter and Njideka Akunyili Crosby, this documentary examines the role of art and artistic passion in today’s money-driven, consumer-based society.
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The Price of Everything
It's about how the global art world interacts with the bottomless well of cash that has been gushing into it during the last few decades, with a focus on one older artist who is quite successful but not by those standards.
Before anybody gets too depressed about it I would add that the kids are alright: the generations who witnessed the arrival of this stinking freight of mammon find it a lot more offensive than the people who just grew up in its shadow. The art world is thriving like never before, and I emphatically include the broke-ass majority of it in that statement.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7475540/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mbqcY9g5CM
Maurizio Cattelan famous to for his satirical pieces like a banana taped to a wall and a solid gold toilet, was not born to a rich family. He also had no formal art training.
Banksy did not rely on meeting people, quite the opposite.
There's a documentary called the price of everything of a man who spent a decade with his wife in his secluded art studio producing a new art technique and came back in 2015-2016 to 'turn in his work' and made bank.
There's more to art than nepotism.