Money naturally plays as important a role in the functioning of the art world as it does in any other activity in which goods and services are exchanged. Often the process is - art is made, it is sold - but the higher you climb in money tree, the more slippery it becomes. No accident. If the ways in which art moves money - and vice-versa - can seem opaque and elusive, these are the characteristics that help keep the art economy afloat. So it's no surprise that money is sometimes the actual subject matter of art. But artists dont often use financial instruments - coins, banknotes, checks - just as handy borrowing from real life, the way chardin laid a table with jugs, Cézanne used apples or Picasso his guitars, because money always implies story. As with Rembrandt’s early masterwork, Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver, images of the currency almost always bear a load of meaning. Many meanings, in fact, and often dark ones. #WhiteBox #NYC #MoneyHostage #ArtSpace (at WhiteBox) https://www.instagram.com/p/BmeGlvABqfN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dk7fddi3akdf