11/02/09
Cash For Gold
It would appear the art world isn’t immune to a little financial chicanery. This gold brick is currently on sale at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art as a paperweight/doorstop, but if the $80 price tag seems a little low for ten ounces of gold there’s a reason: it’s gilded aluminum stamped with a few significant dates and christened as art.
Of course, you could always pick up the genuine article for a few hundred more…but you’d have to leave the museum first.
—R.B.
CONTRIBUTORS
- — Russell Brandom
