Considering the art angle from the 4chan posts: What a great way to hide money and make it legit. That was the beauty of the Mafia owning casinos. They could take money from illegal sources (loan sharking, numbers operations, shake downs, prostitution, and drugs - yes, they all sold drugs) and then bring it to the casino. All the cash is instantly washed.

Cartels pay mega bucks every year to wash their cash around the world. A major U.S. bank paid a multi-hundred million dollar fine for participating.

Back to art. Who can say what 'art' is worth? Or what a legitimate bid on art is? Just do a package deal (kids with the art) and you instantly made it a legal business transaction and can then spend the money as you want - after paying your taxes, of course.