The Price of Everything (2018)

Directed by

Nathaniel Kahn

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

12A

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The documentary interviews artists, dealers, collectors, and critics about the contemporary art world and its market. It examines how money and commerce influence what art is made and how it is valued.

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What happens

The Price of Everything is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Nathaniel Kahn and produced by Jennifer Blei Stockman, Debi Wisch, Carla Solomon and Katharina Otto-Bernstein for HBO. The film features interviews with people prominently involved in contemporary art and the market for it, including; artists Jeff Koons, Larry Poons, Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Gerhard Richter, George Condo, Marilyn Minter art dealer Gavin Brown, Sotheby's executive vice president Amy Cappellazzo, auctioneer Simon de Pury, collectors Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson and Inga Rubenstein, and art critic Jerry Saltz. First released at the Sundance Film Festival, the film's first post-Sundance premier was at the True/False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri. The film takes its title from a quote from the 1892 Oscar Wilde play Lady Windermere's Fan delivered on screen by art collector Stefan Edlis: "There are a lot of people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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