Art + Auction’s Critic Doesn’t Think Much of the Record-Setting Art Buyers Snapped Up in June Souren Melikian is a smart man with a very good eye. But his approach to the art market can be so Olympian as to beg the question. High prices are adduced as signs of a buyer’s taste and discernment when he approves of a work, but a sign of cynical marketing or collector ignorance when he does not. In thi
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