sure it's for charity
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Sorry to bring this up, but in Sociology (I actually had the misfortune to graduate on that) this discussion about art as money, etcetera, is usually referred or approached to as the "Chicago School theory of Art", following the "Chicago School of Economics" which has left a definitive in-print in the world we're living today. They mostly dealt with how big cities were organising themselves and watched how the values of the people inside it changed and were manageable.
In short, they predicted that in any free economy (which they defended nonetheless), the ability to reproduce works of art by mass-printing methods would bring the extinction of art itself, and that the meaningful aspect of any piece of artwork would be over-runned by its massive consumption. In other words, they meant that if you can have copies, then you can't ever worship any piece of artwork as reality 'itself'.
That's what we're living now.