The Price of Everything

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Date: January 01, 2018 to February 01, 2018
Dates Note: 2018
Country of Origin: United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: Color
Silent: No
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Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2018
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Featuring an impressive cast of art world characters, including artists Jeff Koons, Larry Poons, Gerhard Richter, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby as well as curators, critics, collectors, and dealers, The Price of Everything is a lively exploration of the uneasy but inextricable relationship between art and money. While the history of collecting art is not new, auctioning work by living artists has only been common practice since the 1970s. Raising more questions than it answers, this documentary ponders how monetary value affects artists, galleries, museums, and collectors and what is lost when speculation outpaces the possibility for contemplation.

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61st San Francisco International Film Festival at BAMPFA
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A major Sotheby’s auction is the focal point for this broad exploration of the exploding market in contemporary art. Featuring incredibly candid interviews with collectors, curators, and artists, The Price of Everything is, to its credit, more intrigued by posing questions about the commodification of art than offering proscriptive answers about how the matter should be addressed. The film is particularly illuminating around the selling and reselling of particular artworks and how that impacts an artist’s control over his or her own creations.

“Nathaniel Kahn has gained unprecedented access to numerous art personalities and the works they all revere, to dive headlong into a community where everything is sold and traded like Wall Street stocks. The Price of Everything is a candid participatory investigation buttressed by massive and eclectic troves of knowledge and opinion that delight and infuriate in equal measure.”—Matthew Roe, ioncinema.com

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