Sundance Grand Jury Prize-nominated documentary examining the dynamics at play in pricing blue chip art pieces.
"Basquiat paintings regularly fetch tens...
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)
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92 %53 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
95 %118 reviewsAudience score rating
"Watching 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."
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Flicks
Flicks"[A] brilliant and captivating documentary about how the art world got converted into a money market..."
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Variety
Variety"An intelligent film, 'The Price of Everything' is also very funny - usually on purpose, though some of the art is ridiculous."
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Time Out
Time Out"While 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."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"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."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"I walked into The Price of Everything not knowing who Larry Poons was and walked out quite besotted with the lovable old goat."
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Stuff
Stuff"Kahn is a quiet filmmaker, and he gently prods his sources to go beyond the typical art world hyperbole of "gorgeous" and "wonderful.""
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"Cool 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."
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Little White Lies
Little White Lies"An entertaining if not comprehensive look at the bubble in blue-chip art."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterThe Price of Everything | Details
- Rating
- Exempt,
- Runtime
- 105
- Genre
- Documentary
- Country of origin
- USA
