[deepstack]

>To me this missive reads as a response to some specific questions. It would have been nice to know what those questions were.

As a lay person, it is easy to guess is buying and selling of art in the art world is filled with dirty money/money laundering. If you make a visit to art museums in New York, often if you have business card from one of investment banks, you get to go in admission free, it is because art museums are heavily funded by people from wall street. Not to say that everyone works at wall street are people without integrity, but you get the general idea.

[trinkner]

you are saying a lot without actually talking about art itself.