With Wall Street shaky but art prices sky-high, even the art world’s professional boosters started sounding moral about art and money in 2007, as if opportunistically positioning themselves for a fall. Too late. By now everyone knows that art is business, the art world a public relations machine. The sheer bulk of hyped product made the past season look not eclectic and textured but sleek and flat. What did give it texture and color in memory were the intangibles: individual acts, gestures or encounters...
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