Daniel’s Value and Ideas #9: Rising Stars: Part I – The Simulacrum of Success
21 March 2014 • daniel barnes
There is a new generation of artists who are realising staggeringly high prices. This group of rising stars is an all boys club of young, middle-class men. It is a perfect demonstration of the perennial confusion between price and quality, where buyers’ voracious habits steer the consensus towards judgments of artistic worth. But the market, in its inexorable whim, is not always right.
