Dave Hickey was surprisingly interesting to listen to. He discusses how some artists like money more than they like art, and how this isn’t the way it should be. People shouldn’t to get into the art world to make money; they should do it because they love art. Hickey says that artwork is getting sold for too much money. He talks about how in museums a lot of the time they bought the good artwork in the back and artwork that no one was interested in was in the front along with items that were only there to lure people in to the back. Public funding began going down.
He then describes an art bubble that brings in a ton of money. The people who benefit off of this are greedy artists who are selling their art for more money than it should be, and they make this off of people who are buying artwork. I do agree with Hickey in some respect that art can be very overpriced. We’ve seen pieces of artwork in class that are extremely expensive and I can’t believe people pay these extraordinary prices for some pieces. However, I do feel that some artwork is worth the money. If you really like a particular artist and find a piece that you really want, sometimes the price tag doesn’t matter.
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