The Price of Everything

Name: The Price of Everything
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 19, 2018
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 76
Cast: Amy Cappellazzo, George Condo, Gerhard Richter, Jeff Koons, Jerry Saltz

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HBO Documentary | Release Date: October 19, 2018 | TV-14

Starring: Amy Cappellazzo, George Condo, Gerhard Richter, Jeff Koons, Jerry Saltz, Larry Poons, Margaret Lee, Marilyn Minter, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Stefan Edlis

Summary: With unprecedented access to pivotal artists and the white-hot market surrounding them, this film dives deep into the contemporary art world, holding a fun-house mirror up to our values and our times -- where everything can be bought and sold.

Director: Nathaniel Kahn

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: TV-14

Runtime: 98 min

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Maximilian Von Thun

Nov 28, 2018

Nathaniel Kahn’s The Price of Everything certainly doesn’t hold back in its skewering of a contemporary art world defined far more by financial gain and status seeking than a genuine love of beauty. Read full review

Allison Shoemaker

Oct 17, 2018

The master stroke of The Price Of Everything is that it asks the viewer, in Cappellazzo’s words, to see the intricacies of the art world and the way those two seemingly oppositional forces — the financial side and the creative side — are inextricably intertwined. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Oct 9, 2018

The Price of Everything exalts in the spirt of art over commerce, yet what’s thrilling about the film — and what echoes in your mind after it’s over — is that it captures all the ways those two forces can’t be separated. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Oct 14, 2018

Nathaniel Kahn’s collected interviews with artists, hype-driven dealers, well-heeled collectors and art historians and visits to Sotheby’s and the Frieze Art Fair and elsewhere give us the scale of the business, the birth of competitive modern art collecting and a sense of the recent history of this winner-take-all playground of the richest of the rich. Read full review

Gary Thompson

Nov 6, 2018

Kahn surveys artists, dealers, auctioneers, and gallery operators to provide a synopsis of the New York art world, and is at its most interesting when profiling artists who represent differing attitudes toward the way money affects their work. Read full review

John DeFore

Oct 9, 2018

More conversational than journalistic in spirit, it avoids hard statistics (and the reasons those stats can be hard to come by) in favor of well-informed impressions and anecdotes. Though not the first doc to note the insanity surrounding this subject, it is easily accessible to non-insiders and holds interest even for those who follow art closely. Read full review

The Guardian Leslie Felperin

Nov 29, 2018

There’s something so fluid, almost nebulous, about its construction that a chasm starts to open up where you would expect to find some kind of unifying thesis. Read full review

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richbodo

Apr 30, 2020

If you want to be entertained with beautiful art and music and intelligent, experienced people revealing their lives work - if you want to begin to understand what "value" means - and why some things are valued more than others - then this movie movie might be for you. The concepts ofIf you want to be entertained with beautiful art and music and intelligent, experienced people revealing their lives work - if you want to begin to understand what "value" means - and why some things are valued more than others - then this movie movie might be for you. The concepts of uniqueness and duplication are covered in an experiential way that will give you intuition if not understanding.

This movie was meaningful to me, as my research intersects value and economics. I have never written a review here, and probably never will again, but when I saw the lack of user feedback on this one, I made an account and wrote this. I suppose the real reason I wrote this is that I just don't find movies that provide insight on this level, and the other reviewers didn't seem to get that. Don't watch this movie if you want passive entertainment. You have to be willing work with it, considering the meaning of what is happening and the revelations that the characters are experiencing, but that work will pay off if you do.

Yeah, it also gives you a fun look at the art world, but people with experience in other domains where value is the key element will recognize that as a pretty wrapper over the real content.… Expand

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