The Price of Everything
2018·Documentary·1h 38m
7.1
★
Featuring collectors, dealers, auctioneers and a rich range of artists, including market darlings George Condo, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter and Njideka Akunyili Crosby, this documentary examines the role of art and artistic passion in today’s money-driven, consumer-based society.
Directed by Nathaniel Kahn
art collector
collector
art
contemporary art
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Cast
Jeff Koons
Self
Marilyn Minter
George Condo
Crew
Nathaniel Kahn
Director
Jeff Beal
Original Music Composer
Popular Reviews
12 reviews
annieskimPRO
dealers are out of control. look at what unregulated capitalism has done.
i think artists should look to Jeff Koons and realize that they too could price their art like him. Just seeing his studio and his little minions making copies of Renaissance paintings with their numbered palettes of calculated colors. It’s all very disturbing but you have to give it to Koons for really taking full advantage of the market he knew from being on Wall Street. what was most heartbreaking was seeing the artists not know the true value of their work and dealers exploiting that. I can probably name hundreds of artists better than Koons but there’s a reason why he’s the richest living artist today. Artists like Koons and Hirst understood the system and weren’t afraid to play the game. They knew that confidence was a form of capital and that value was just an illusion. their confidence is the art and that is what’s most valued in the contemporary art market.
i think artists should look to Jeff Koons and realize that they too could price their art like him. Just seeing his studio and his little minions making copies of Renaissance paintings with their numbered palettes of calculated colors. It’s all very disturbing but you have to give it to Koons for really taking full advantage of the market he knew from being on Wall Street. what was most heartbreaking was seeing the artists not know the true value of their work and dealers exploiting that. I can probably name hundreds of artists better than Koons but there’s a reason why he’s the richest living artist today. Artists like Koons and Hirst understood the system and weren’t afraid to play the game. They knew that confidence was a form of capital and that value was just an illusion. their confidence is the art and that is what’s most valued in the contemporary art market.
dealers are out of control. look at what unregulated capitalism has done.
i think artists should look to Jeff Koons and realize that they too could price their art like him. Just seeing his studio and his little minions making copies of Renaissance paintings with their numbered palettes of calculated colors. It’s all very disturbing but you have to give it to Koons for really taking full advantage of the market he knew from being on Wall Street. what was most heartbreaking was seeing the artists not know the true value of their work and dealers exploiting that. I can probably name hundreds of artists better than Koons but there’s a reason why he’s the richest living artist today. Artists like Koons and Hirst understood the system and weren’t afraid to play the game. They knew that confidence was a form of capital and that value was just an illusion. their confidence is the art and that is what’s most valued in the contemporary art market.
i think artists should look to Jeff Koons and realize that they too could price their art like him. Just seeing his studio and his little minions making copies of Renaissance paintings with their numbered palettes of calculated colors. It’s all very disturbing but you have to give it to Koons for really taking full advantage of the market he knew from being on Wall Street. what was most heartbreaking was seeing the artists not know the true value of their work and dealers exploiting that. I can probably name hundreds of artists better than Koons but there’s a reason why he’s the richest living artist today. Artists like Koons and Hirst understood the system and weren’t afraid to play the game. They knew that confidence was a form of capital and that value was just an illusion. their confidence is the art and that is what’s most valued in the contemporary art market.
Ray
6.0★ · 03/24/25
watched this immediately before the seminar it was due and didnt actually finish it. c'est la vie
watched this immediately before the seminar it was due and didnt actually finish it. c'est la vie
anna b
8.0★ · 07/14/24
jeff koons they could never make me like you
jeff koons they could never make me like you
Natalia Gaytan
7.0★ · 11/13/23
What is a cynic?
— A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
And a sentimentalist, a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn’t know the market price of a single thing. The Price Of Everything exists in a space held by the famous quote of Oscar Wilde and poses the question of how we are to understand the relationship between contemporary art and money. It presents Koons, the ultimate business genius made artist, who sees in art a way to create value. It presents Poons, the ever romantic artist, who sees value and let’s art capture it (I would die for Poons, let the record show that). It shows us the careful collector— the one that does not want to overpay for a piece in concern with the artists’ stability in the long run. It shows us the auctioneer— self assured in her knowledge of art history in a Western Canon and cunningly clever in every move she makes and every piece she connects with another. It shows us the complex collector— the one that doesn’t always understand why he purchases something, the one that questions constantly what art even is, the one that ultimately understands placing art in museums is the respectable duty of someone with his power. The film is personal but embraces the reality of how out of reach it is to connect with it fully— the same way the art world is for the common person. A great watch, with a lot to laugh at, marvel at, and question over and over again.
What is a cynic?
— A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
And a sentimentalist, a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn’t know the market price of a single thing. The Price Of Everything exists in a space held by the famous quote of Oscar Wilde and poses the question of how we are to understand the relationship between contemporary art and money. It presents Koons, the ultimate business genius made artist, who sees in art a way to create value. It presents Poons, the ever romantic artist, who sees value and let’s art capture it (I would die for Poons, let the record show that). It shows us the careful collector— the one that does not want to overpay for a piece in concern with the artists’ stability in the long run. It shows us the auctioneer— self assured in her knowledge of art history in a Western Canon and cunningly clever in every move she makes and every piece she connects with another. It shows us the complex collector— the one that doesn’t always understand why he purchases something, the one that questions constantly what art even is, the one that ultimately understands placing art in museums is the respectable duty of someone with his power. The film is personal but embraces the reality of how out of reach it is to connect with it fully— the same way the art world is for the common person. A great watch, with a lot to laugh at, marvel at, and question over and over again.
Mike Bannah
8.0★ · 10/19/23
Art as analytics. I’m hysterical.
Art as analytics. I’m hysterical.