ART FOR OUR SAKE

THERE ARE TWO ART WORLDS.

There’s the high, fine, fancy art depicted in high-concept comedies and esoteric dramas alike; the type of art for which a rich man on a yacht calls into an auction and dramatically bids a pearl-clutching $27 million on an iconic Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, or Jasper Johns. Men gasp as their glasses fog up. Women in Chanel suits nearly faint. Everything is about rarity and impeccable provenance. It’s a world where some of history’s most renowned works are stored away