Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. H. L. Mencken
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. Edmund Burke
A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage. Jerry Saltz
Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them. Jerry Saltz
Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value. Jerry Saltz
auction in Danish is auktion
auction in Dutch is auctie, afslag, mijn, vendu, veiling
auction in French is liciter, enchere, licitation
auction in German is Versteigerung, versteigern, Auktion {f}
auction in Italian is licitazione
auction in Spanish is almonedar
auction in Swedish is auktion, auktionera
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