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The Price of Everything

2018

Nathaniel Kahn

Documentary, Self: Jeff Koons, Larry Poons, Gerhard Richter, Njideka Akunyili Crosby ...

6.8

212

Documentary With unprecedented access to the flashpoint artists of today as well as prominent collectors, auctioneers, gallerists, and museum folk who swirl around them, 'For the Love of Art' takes us deep into the labyrinth of the contemporary art world. The film holds a fun-house mirror up to our time - where everything can be bought and sold - posing pointed questions while ultimately reaffirming the transcendent value of art.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Brilliant and captivating (...) Yet if 'The Price of Everything' acknowledges the organic (and compelling) aspects of the art market, it also points to the ways that something has gone very wrong."	POS
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"An entertaining if not comprehensive look at the bubble in blue-chip art (...) It avoids hard statistics (...) in favor of well-informed impressions and anecdotes"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"[A] colorful and inquisitive cinematic essay (...) Occasionally skeptical and consistently thoughtful"	POS
United States	Allison Shoemaker AV Club	"Kahn’s willingness to lay all these complexities bare (...) makes it a film well worthy of what it most celebrates (...) [It] demands to be seen"	POS
United Kingdom	Allan Hunter Screendaily	"Fascinating (...) Kahn teases out both the absurdity and the complexity of the world he has entered"	POS
United States	Tomris Laffly rogerebert.com	"[It] has a meandering nature and explores one too many avenues in building a thesis (...) [It] manages to leave a genuinely entertaining mark (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU

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