Name: The Price of Everything
Location: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū

The Price of Everything

Film

Past event

Philip Carter Family Auditorium

Free

The Price of Everything is a documentary about the art market. It dives deep into the contemporary art world, holding a funhouse mirror up to our values and our times — where everything can be bought and sold.

How did the contemporary art market become so lucrative? In this hilarious and unnerving documentary, filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn (My Architect) elicits revealing answers from buyers, sellers, critics and the artists themselves. Features astonishing interactions with Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Larry Poons, and some people who seem to have more money than God/The Goddess.

(2018, 98 mins.)

This screening replaces The Mix event previously scheduled for 28 August.

Related reading: Film, Free event

Exhibition

Now, Then, Next: Time and the Contemporary

8 March 2020

Time and the contemporary in recent works from the collection

Commentary

The Time Problem

Time is a problem in the contemporary world. There is simply not enough of it. Our to-do lists are too long; the time available to do what needs to be done is too short; the demands on our attention are increasingly brutal. Digital technologies track the minutiae of how we spend our days, but the sheer speed at which things seem to be happening makes it difficult to keep up.

Continued