Any documentary made by Robert Hughes is worth watching.

also a couple of other great ones, although not exactly art documentaries but about art itself are by Orson Welles.

 The Orson Welles Sketchbook and F for Fake.

Feb 17, 2014 14:08:12 GMT 1 @ling said:

For those that don't have the time to watch all of 'The mona Lisa curse' - watch this video. 

Hughes on Warhol, the relationship between art and money, and contemporary art collectors.

Watching Mugrabi squirm is brilliant. 

The people like Mugrabi etc manipulate the market.

It's what Hughes wa sgetting at as to why Mugrabi would want to own all those Warhols.

 There are lots of stories about dealers buying up an artists work at low prices then sticking them in auction and bidding up the prices to create some sort of fake overhyped value after which they can sell their stock to gullible rich people who buy at high prices as some form of tax avoidance or other thing.

 There was even a story about Sotheby's lending a Chagall dealer millions to buy Chagall's which were auctioned by Sotheby's.

   Hirst played the game very well and he should be applauded for that but without the Saatchi publicity machine behind him and the contacts, it wouldn't have worked.

  Hughes exposed the politics and money behind the promotion of a lot of very bad art.