world as well. the art world has been kept afloat more than a decade by the chinese consumer market. if you look at the different galleries that still exist now, whether it s in los angeles or in new york. it just cuts across. it s just an enormous creek cutting across the middle of america, what i call the china class. it seems like a looting, in some ways, but it also seemed, this is depressing, to say out loud, but also the dynamic between the dynamic in great britain after the first world war, where great british country houses were basically dismantled and stiffed to the united states by some of the richest families in the u.s., where americans married off their daughters to, you know,