The Art Market Explained: What you need to know about auctions: Auctions launches a four-part documentary series, followed by Galleries, Patrons, and Art Fairs, released weekly through mid-June. Together, the four segments will tell a comprehensive story about the art market’s history and cultural influence, providing an approachable yet nuanced introduction to an extraordinary subject.
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The Price of Everything: With unprecedented access to pivotal artists and the white-hot market surrounding them, The Price of Everything dives deep into the labyrinth of the contemporary art world. It examines the role of art and artistic passion in today’s money-driven, consumer-based society — where everything can be bought and sold. In January 2018, The Price Of Everything premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Ways of Seeing: We’ve been coming to terms with technology’s effect on art for more than a century, and the issue seems particularly salient now that we are depending on the internet for all of our social and aesthetic needs. But there’s still no better guide to the way modernity has upended our experience of the world than the critic, novelist, and screenwriter John Berger in his groundbreaking 1972 BBC series.
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F for Fake: Orson Welles’s idiosyncratic master class on the philosophical underpinnings of art, the art market, performance, and self-consciousness focuses on a prolific art forger, Elmyr de Hory, and begins with a mind-bending quotation from the French magician Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin: “A magician,” Welles says that Houdin said, “is just an actor playing the part of a magician.”
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American Animals: Based on the unbelievable true story of four middle-class college kids who hatched a harebrained scheme to stage a daylight robbery of several rare, multi-million dollar books from a university campus in Kentucky. In 2004, the thieves tried to pull off the audacious theft of four double-sized volumes of John James Audobon’s Birds of America from Transylvania University’s Special Collections Library. Although they failed in their initial goal, they nabbed some Audobon drawings and other rare books, which they then took to Christie’s as (supposed) representatives of a private collector. Police caught up with the gang in 2005 and they were later each sentenced to seven years in prison.
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