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The high-end art market is tanking. And that's ... a good thing?

Yes, according to critic Blake Gopnik. When the market was thriving, he says, "the art was just unbelievably terrible."
The art market is in a correction phase, says critic Blake Gopnik. According to him, price and quality weren't closely related.
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What is a market "correction"?

Feb 27, 2020
Most people define it as a fall of 10% or more from a high.
One professor recommends trying to stay calm while the market corrects.
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