Toronto writer Don Thompson’s book The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art subjects today’s global art world to an economic analysis.
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Thompson, an economist and professor of business who regularly lectures on art, attempts to de-mystify the value of contemporary art – why such exorbitant prices (nearing $150 million) are paid for works which are, ostensibly, nothing more than paint on canvas, dead animals, unmade beds and other flights of artistic fancy…
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Andrea Carson writes on contemporary art, architecture and design...
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