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Sharks stuffed with money: the curious economics of contemporary art.

The poet Wallace Stevens, wealthy from his position as vice president of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, once remarked that there was a huge difference between appreciating art and owning it. But Don Thompson, a business professor at Toronto's York University an d the author of the insightful and compulsively readable book The $12 Million Stuffed Shark (Palgrave Macmillan), argues that the two activities are increasingly indistinguishable. Thompson spent a year touring auction...

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