This decade has seen the greatest rise in the value of art in the history of the world as contemporary art prices increased by 800% from 2003 until 2008.
The lustrous contemporary art bubble blew bigger and lasted longer than the global credit bubble, the property bubble and the oil bubble. On September 15, 2008, the day Lehmans collapsed bearing the worst financial news since 1929, Damien Hirst sold over 70 million pounds of his art at a Sotheby's auction that totalled 111 million pounds over two days.

Art critic, art lover and filmmaker Ben Lewis spent all of 2008 investigating this bubble. Everywhere he went, the art world told him the boom would last forever, fuelled by a new passion from the world's super rich. He saw it as a bubble akin to tulip fever and was filming when it burst in spectacular fashion.