Press coverage of top living artists centers on price rather than aesthetics.

Evidence

The most common and almost singular piece of news about Gerhard Richter, for instance, has very little to do with aesthetics but rather with the hard fact that he is the most expensive living artist. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 70

Categorization

• CANDY: A small conversation-starter that the most expensive living artist gets news coverage for being expensive, not for his paintings.