On Loan

Surely one of the great inhibitors preventing people from collecting art is its cost. As if contemporary art weren’t expensive enough, the art buying sprees of the 1980s and 1990s caused prices to skyrocket, effectively pushing working people out of the game altogether. And the secondary market for a spare Matisse or the primary market for a new Koons will always be well beyond the grasp of 99 percent of us.