Event

The Price of Everything

** Seattle Arts Commissioner Juan Alonso-Rodríguez will be in attendance Nov. 2 for a discussion! **

Fri Nov 02: 7.30pm
Sat Nov 03: 3.00pm, 8.15pm
Sun Nov 04: 4.30pm, 7.30pm
Mon Nov 05: 3.00pm
Tue Nov 06: 3.00pm
Wed Nov 07: 7.30pm
Thu Nov 08: 7.30pm

Nathaniel Kahn
US
2018
1h 45m

About
A major Sothebys auction is the focal point for this broad exploration of the exploding market in modern art. Featuring incredibly candid interviews with collectors, curators, and artists themselves, The Price of Everything is, to its credit, more intrigued by posing questions about the commodification of art rather than offering proscriptive answers about how the matter should be addressed. The film is particularly illuminating around the selling and reselling of particular artworks and how that impacts an artists control over his or her own creations.

Nathaniel Kahn has gained unprecedented access to numerous art personalities and the works they all revere, to dive headlong into a community where everything is sold and traded like Wall Street stocks. The Price of Everything is a candid participatory investigation buttressed by massive and eclectic troves of knowledge and opinion that delight and infuriate in equal measure. Matthew Roe, ioncinema.com