"Where any view of Money exists, Art cannot be carried on."--William Blake
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money."--Samuel Johnson
MY ART EDUCATION was bookended by two discussions of art and money. It's impossible not to retrospectively arrange my schooling like that: two stern reminders of the reality that awaited me upon graduation. The first was an essay, titled prosaically "Art and Money," the final entry in a collection by Robert Hughes called Nothing ...