ART MARKET WATCH
May 22, 2008$348 MILLION AT CHRISTIE’S CONTEMPORARYArt auctions are the Vampire Theater of Capital, where all-powerful but soulless Money seizes Esthetics in an iron embrace, draining it of blood only to endow it in turn with an otherworldly kind of eternal life. Ah, if only the actual sales had that kind of melodrama.
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