{"id":10592,"date":"2025-11-07T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/799537368652726272-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T04:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T21:53:06","slug":"799537368652726272-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/799537368652726272-2\/","title":{"rendered":"799537368652726272"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https:\/\/donotdestroy.tumblr.com\/post\/732801474100412416\/what-makes-art-valuable\">donotdestroy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thecollector.com\/what-makes-art-valuable\/\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/www.thecollector.com\/what-makes-art-valuable\/\",\"title\":\"What Makes Art Valuable?\",\"description\":\"Why do people buy art? An even bigger question is, why do people pay tens of millions of dollars to own art?\",\"site_name\":\"TheCollector\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"d094a81b6f3bacec6477f8eb569541fd:e953c5055547ab5a-34\",\"type\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":690}]}'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollector.com\/what-makes-art-valuable\/\" target=\"_blank\">What Makes Art Valuable?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole thing [about] art and money is ridiculous. The value of a painting at auction is not necessarily the value of the painting. 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