Cogs in the machine: how the art market became obsessed with money

With a Richter selling for £30.4m and a Gauguin setting a new record for the most expensive painting ever sold, profit has disgustingly eclipsed creativity in the art world

So it really is all about money.

Where I come from, if you tell people your job has something to do with art, the conversation is soon about cash. People are schooled to see art in this way by the Antiques Roadshow and news stories about cash-in-the-attic art discoveries.

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