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Because the expensive art market is entirely fraudulent, and on top of that it’s a 0 sum game. Art has no intrinsic value. It’s only worth as much as someone i
by sgjohnson 5y ago
Because the expensive art market is entirely fraudulent, and on top of that it’s a 0 sum game.
Art has no intrinsic value. It’s only worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it, and in auctions it’s not unusual for the sellers to bid the price up themselves, to artificially increase the value.
- daniel-cussen 5y agoEspecially beyond a point in the low millions, it's just too tempting to forge the art. The intrinsic value for a painting is for it to change a wall, sometimes alter a space you could say, and it does that very well in many cases. But not if it becomes so expensive you can't turn your back to it.