The deal of the art

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Kurt Andersen talks with Amy Cappellazzo of Sotheby’s and filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn about the art market and Kahn’s new documentary, “The Price of Everything.” How the masterful Talking Heads album “Remain in Light” drew on inspiration from radio preachers, newspaper headlines, recordings of former slaves and John Dean’s Watergate testimony. And Kurt talks with the Oscar-winning writer Kenneth Lonergan about his play that’s on Broadway, “The Waverly Gallery.”

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0:00.0	From PRX.
0:08.4	This is Studio 360.
0:10.4	I'm Kurt Annes.
0:11.1	And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:13.5	This first level of garden.
0:14.8	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.7	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
0:18.3	Very well done.
0:19.5	Editing is all about timing.
0:21.2	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:23.8	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:26.3	Studio 360.
0:28.2	With Kurt Anderson.
0:35.8	Okay.
0:36.8	It's the back seat. Girl with Ballou, ladies and gentlemen, standing in the Banksy.
0:38.1	You're with Balloon, ladies and gentlemen, standing in the back of the room,
0:40.8	and I'm going to start getting here, $150,000, $200,000.
0:43.8	A few weeks ago, as you probably heard,
0:46.6	something extraordinary happened at a Sotheby's art auction.
0:50.2	It happened when a work by the anonymous,
0:53.1	mysterious British artist Banksy went up for sale.
0:55.9	What happened was the piece was in a big artist's frame,
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