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[commercial] [curators] [protegee’s] [tycoons] [domain] [cult] [bourgeois][commodification] [ominous] [enhance ]

Yet, Sherman’s bedfellows are far from strange. Art, despite its religious and magical origins, very soon became a 1) _________ venture. From 2) _______________ patrons funding art they barely understood in order to share their 3) ________________ prestige, to museum 4) _________________ stage-managing the 5) _________________ of artists in order to 6) ___________________ the market value of museum holdings, entrepreneurs have found validation and profit in big-name art. Speculators, thieves, and promoters long ago created and fed a market where cultural icons could be traded like commodities. This trend toward 7) ___________________ of high-brow art took an 8) __________________, if predictable; turn in the 1980s during the Japanese “bubble economy.” At a time when Japanese share prices more than doubled, individual 9) ___________________ and industrial giants alike invested record amounts in some of the West’s greatest masterpieces. Ryoei Saito, for example, purchased van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Gachet for a record-breaking $82.5 million. The work, then on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, suddenly vanished from the public 10) _____________________.

Answer 1

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1. commercial

2. bourgeois

3. protegee's

4. curators

5. cult

6. enhance

7. commodification

8. ominous

9. tycoons

10. domain

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