... the art market, in its new financialized form, apparently has less of a use of criticism. In the recent past, the art market has acquired a self-valorizing autonomy with regard to the general climate of opinion - or, to put it in another way ... with broader, more fundamental shifts in which the extraction of profit increasingly governs more and more aspects of contemporary culture. ... This is one example of how bourgeois freedoms born with the expansion of capitalist exchange are now shut down through its hyper-involution/domination. ...
- M. Gilligan