The Price of Everything
Directed by Nathaniel Kahn
2018Documentary98 minUnited StatesPG
Nathaniel Kahn goes inside the art market with Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter and top collectors to ask how we put a price on the priceless.
Synopsis
With unprecedented access to in-demand artists like Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby, and to prominent collectors and dealers, Academy Award nominee Nathaniel Kahn coaxes out the dynamics at play in pricing the priceless. Intimate interviews with a mega-collector reveal a surprising mix of altruism and business acumen as he determines the fate of his collection. Candid moments with ’60s art star Larry Poons probe why he fell out of fashion while his contemporaries’ cultural and monetary stock went sky-high. Rather than prescribe answers, Kahn’s juicy systemic portrait teases out tensions, holding a fun-house mirror to our feverish times.
The director
Nathaniel Kahn
Nathaniel Kahn is an American documentary filmmaker whose My Architect, a search for his father, Louis Kahn, was nominated for the Academy Award. The Price of Everything examines money and the contemporary art market.
