The Price of Everything
Sundance Grand Jury Prize-nominated documentary examining the dynamics at play in pricing blue chip art pieces.
"Basquiat paintings regularly fetch tens of millions of dollars, and the recent sale of a little-known Da Vinci topped $450 million — but what forces are driving the white-hot art market? Who assigns and who pays these astronomical sums? What currency adequately measures art’s value? The Price of Everything leads us into a rarefied labyrinth of galleries, studios, and auction houses to wrestle with these questions and explore what society loses and gains when art becomes a rich person’s commodity." (Sundance Film Festival)
- Director:
- Nathaniel Kahn ('My Architect')
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Aaron Yap
flicksWatching The Price of Everything invites feelings of aggravation toward the art world. You want to hate the obscenely rich snapping up multi-million-dollar artworks for their own private collection. You want to hate the slimy wheelers-and-dealers who might else well be trading stock. You want to hate the artists who crank out pieces like they’re making designer handbags.
Variety
press[A] brilliant and captivating documentary about how the art world got converted into a money market...
Time Out
pressAn intelligent film, 'The Price of Everything' is also very funny - usually on purpose, though some of the art is ridiculous.
The New York Times
pressWhile this colorful and inquisitive cinematic essay on the state of the art world is occasionally skeptical and consistently thoughtful, cynicism isn’t really on its agenda.
The Guardian
pressThere’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.
Stuff
pressI walked into The Price of Everything not knowing who Larry Poons was and walked out quite besotted with the lovable old goat.
Los Angeles Times
pressKahn is a quiet filmmaker, and he gently prods his sources to go beyond the typical art world hyperbole of "gorgeous" and "wonderful."
Little White Lies
pressCool and nominally neutral, there is nonetheless a genius use of one scene from Martin Scorsese's grim and glossily-reproachful The Wolf of Wall Street that makes the director's feelings on the subject crystal clear.
Hollywood Reporter
pressAn entertaining if not comprehensive look at the bubble in blue-chip art.
Flicks, Aaron Yap
flicksWatching The Price of Everything invites feelings of aggravation toward the art world. You want to hate the obscenely rich snapping up multi-million-dollar artworks for their own private collection. You want to hate the slimy wheelers-and-dealers who might else well be trading stock. You want to hate the artists who crank out pieces like they’re making designer handbags.
Variety
press[A] brilliant and captivating documentary about how the art world got converted into a money market...
Time Out
pressAn intelligent film, 'The Price of Everything' is also very funny - usually on purpose, though some of the art is ridiculous.
The New York Times
pressWhile this colorful and inquisitive cinematic essay on the state of the art world is occasionally skeptical and consistently thoughtful, cynicism isn’t really on its agenda.
The Guardian
pressThere’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.
Stuff
pressI walked into The Price of Everything not knowing who Larry Poons was and walked out quite besotted with the lovable old goat.
Los Angeles Times
pressKahn is a quiet filmmaker, and he gently prods his sources to go beyond the typical art world hyperbole of "gorgeous" and "wonderful."
Little White Lies
pressCool and nominally neutral, there is nonetheless a genius use of one scene from Martin Scorsese's grim and glossily-reproachful The Wolf of Wall Street that makes the director's feelings on the subject crystal clear.
Hollywood Reporter
pressAn entertaining if not comprehensive look at the bubble in blue-chip art.
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