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Re:Picasso's self portrait evolution from age 15 to age 90 by pmoriarty on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @06:27PM (#31417009)
"the art world since the early 1900s has become defined by speculative trading, and some of those early artists were ultra-hyped, and their art has appreciated by millions-fold in the speculative art markets"

Not only that, but there's evidence[1][2] that the CIA secretly manipulated the public's perception of modern art in the cultural war against the Soviet Union.

[1] - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...

[2] - https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20161004-was-modern-art-...

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