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‘The Fine Art World Is All a Lie’

August 9, 2017 by Marion Maneker

From chandelier bidding to money laundering to the idea that “only a small share of artists are allowed to succeed,” this video will seemto anyone who is involved in the art market to get just about everything hilariously wrong in a defensive, resentful way. But then you look at a series like this and wonder if the art market isn’t a little in love with the idea of its own supposed bad behavior.

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