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From a good piece in The New Yorker<\/em> about the art market, and David Zwirner, the era’s emerging dealer-king:<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne of the reasons there\u2019s so much talk about money is that it\u2019s so much easier to talk about than the art,\u201d Zwirner told me one day. You meet a lot of people in the art world who are exhausted and dismayed by the focus on money, and by its dominance. It distracts from the work, they say. It distorts curatorial instincts, critical appraisals, and young artists\u2019 careers. It scares away civilians, who begin to lump art in with other symptoms of excess and dismiss it as another garish plaything of the rich. Of course, many of those who complain\u2014dealers, artists, curators\u2014are complicit. The culture industry, which supports them in one way or another, and which hardly existed a generation ago, subsists on all that money\u2014mostly on the largesse and folly of wealthy art lovers, whether their motivations are lofty or base.<\/p>\n

“Since the doldrums of the early nineties, the market for contemporary art, which has various definitions (work created after the Second World War, or during \u201cour\u201d lifetime, or post-1960, or post-1970), has rocketed up, year after year, flattening out briefly amid the financial crisis and global recession of 2008-09, before resuming its climb. Big annual returns have attracted more people to buying art, which has raised prices further. It is no coincidence that this steep rise, in recent decades, coincides with the increasing financialization of the world economy. The accumulation of greater wealth in the hands of a smaller percentage of the world\u2019s population has created immense fortunes with a limitless capacity to pursue a limited supply of art work. The globalization of the art market\u2014the interest in contemporary art among newly wealthy Asians, Latin Americans, Arabs, and Russians\u2014has furnished it with scores of new buyers, and perhaps fresh supplies of greater fools. Once you have hundreds of millions of dollars, it\u2019s hard to know where to put it all. Art is transportable, unregulated, glamorous, arcane, beautiful, difficult. It is easier to store than oil, more esoteric than diamonds, more durable than political influence. Its elusive valuation makes it conducive to extremely creative tax accounting.”<\/p>\n

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“Dealers come and go, their names and enterprises soon forgotten. All that survives is the detritus of their influence and taste\u2014what they sold and whom they sold it to. The biggest dealers are like Ice Age mega-glaciers, leaving behind vast moraines of art work they\u2019d borne aloft and finally deposited in mansions and museums before melting away.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From a good piece in The New Yorker about the art market, and David Zwirner, the era’s emerging dealer-king: \u201cOne of the reasons there\u2019s so much talk about money is that it\u2019s so much easier to talk about than the art,\u201d Zwirner told me one day. 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