“ Any price—many millions, a buck fifty—paid for any work of art is absurd. Or call it fiduciary poetry. People keep noting that the value of art is strictly subjective, but that truth sinks in only so far, if at all. ” — said the renowned art critic of The New Yorker Peter Schjeldahl. It might indeed be absurd to pay millions for artwork, and yet many millions are regularly changing hands in the world of art. The Nathaniel Kahn’s documentary “ The Price of Everything ” exactly emphasizes this far-reaching speculation mania where art collectors are more obsessed with the classic financial world’s principle of “buy low — sell high” than with the actual art. Greed seems to have become the name of the game. Truth must be told, the art market is a huge market. One of the highlight titles in the March 08, 2019 Artsy.net newsletter was: “ The Global Art Market Reached $67.4 Billion in 2018, up 6% ”. Those already are impressive numbers and the market is believed to be ...