But, as with so many other commodities, the demand that really counts comes from China.
Downtown, where I slowly started to find my bearings again, I still resented the absence of so many Parisian commodities like street furniture -- the shelter where you can sit and avoid the rain while waiting for the bus, or the sophisticated fleuristes who might spend 15 minutes assembling a bouquet for you, or the daily voitures-balai that clean each Parisian street with water and brush.
But everywhere else, the price of so many essential commodities – rice, wheat, meat, oil, corn, copper, wool, wood, coal – will drop by about a third, as the great plains of Canada and Russia and the American Midwest no longer have to feed all those hungry mouths.
While in her sculptures, each individual object gets swallowed up by the rest, Munson's paintings allow the viewer to mull over just how uncanny so many of the commodities marketed to women truly are.
But so many investors piled into commodities that the roll yield disappeared.
It's good to see this material again, first, because it's clever and funny, and second, because it's a reminder of where so many recent art-as-commodity ideas that are touted as fresh and radical came from.
So many concerns: oil prices, commodity price, Iran.
So many artworks are super-commodities because they are rare objects or rare experiences, but I think that's not very interesting.
No wonder a commodity with so many qualities, uses and associations has proved so difficult to organise.
