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World's most expensive artwork criticizes US student loans

Valued at approximately US$470 million, the work surpassed the value of Leonardo Da Vinci's painting Salvator Mundi

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Updated at Feb 1, 2021, 5:00 PM - Submitted at Feb 1, 2021, 5:00 PM

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The world's most expensive work of art is a critique of the American education system. Valued at approximately $470 million, it surpasses Da Vinci's painting Salvador Mundi.
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The world's current most expensive work of art , valued at nearly $470 million, may not have the lifelike detail of Michelangelo's David or the play of light and shadow of Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas, but it does have something equally laborious: a university degree .
The world's most expensive work of art is a critique of the American education system. Valued at approximately $470 million, it surpasses Da Vinci's painting Salvador Mundi.
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Dubbed Da Vinci of Debt , the work that surpassed Leonardo Da Vinci's painting Salvator Mundi (valued at US$450.3 million) is made up of 2,600 framed university diplomas , tied in a spiral shape, like if it were a kaleidoscope, and is a critique of the American university system. Each diploma in the work represents $180,000 , which is equivalent to the average cost of a four-year undergraduate degree in the United States. Thus, the work would be valued at $470 million .
Signed by artist Ethan Jakob Craft and displayed at Grand Central Terminal in New York, the work was sponsored by the Anheuser-Busch group, responsible for the Natural Light brewery, a drink widely consumed by North American university students.
The world's most expensive work of art is a critique of the American education system. Valued at approximately $470 million, it surpasses Da Vinci's painting Salvador Mundi.
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“Student loans are one of the most important and dire issues facing Americans today. We chose art as a medium to address this. We saw that the prices of art could be a great analogy for four years of college. ”, says Daniel Blake, vice president of marketing for Anheuser-Busch.
The world's most expensive work of art is a critique of the American education system. Valued at approximately $470 million, it surpasses Da Vinci's painting Salvador Mundi.
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The group will also provide $1 million to help students pay for their education. “College should be fun, not debt,” the company said. For those who are not in New York, you can visit the project through this link website .

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