The Art Market: A Partner (Witting Or Un-) In Crime

The secrecy of the seller might have to go the way of an expectation of no selfies at museums, but for better reasons: “This sort of discretion — one founded in a simpler time, when only a few wealthy collectors took part in the art market — is not only quaint but also reckless when art is traded like a commodity and increasingly suspected in money laundering.”