Or an under the table payment to someone shady.

See : Hunter Biden.

Especially modern art: the postmodernist obsession with subjectivity, with making abstract pieces that the consumer has to identify meaning in, which of course appeals to all of these megalomanial nouveau-riche, as opposed to art that tells a story, which is what ordinary people want.

All expensive art is

I own a cel from the eyecatch for Kaito Saint Tail.