For years the debates have raged about how to argue for the arts, and never more so than now, when public money for museums is everywhere drying up. As I wrote not long ago in the Art Newspaper, a thorny problem for arts advocates is that they have boxed themselves …
Zuckerberg to VIP Art Fair: “Users are fickle…”
by admin on January 26, 2011 in Artworld Salon
There is a scene in The Social Network when Jesse Eisenberg’s Zuckerberg is laying into his then CFO, Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), for freezing the company account of the then-neo-natal Facebook. It’s the best 30 seconds on the fragility of a company’s online profile that one can possibly find, and …
The Girl With the Art Magazine
by admin on January 5, 2011 in Artworld Salon
Yesterday was a good day for art journalism. Lindsay Pollock was named editor of the Art in America, opening the way for the rejuvenation of one of our most venerable magazine brands. Like that other old workhorse of the art journalism trade, ArtNews, the 98 year-old Art in America has …
Museums 2.0
by admin on December 24, 2010 in Artworld Salon
Adam Levine writes:
Amidst the glamour of Art Basel, earlier this month, one panel in the “Conversations” series—moderated by AWS’s Andras Szanto, as it happens—stood out in its attempt to tackle a more intellectual topic: How museums will operate in the digital world?
The discussion revolved around the use of digital media …
Enter the activist foundation
by admin on December 15, 2010 in Artworld Salon
While assessing the extent of this country’s liberals political apathy, Harper’s magazine writer Thomas Frank remarks: “say what you like about the Tea Party movement, but at least they showed up.” It is precisely the combination of the dormant state of progressives (be it due to either disillusionment, boredom, …
Enter the Activist Foundation
by admin on December 14, 2010 in Artworld Salon
While assessing the extent of this country’s liberals political apathy, Harper’s magazine writer Thomas Frank remarks: “say what you like about the Tea Party movement, but at least they showed up.” It is precisely the combination of the dormant state of progressives (be it due to either disillusionment, boredom, …
Miami debrief
by admin on December 6, 2010 in Artworld Salon
The results are in, and it was a good year in Miami. Smiles were seen on dealers’ faces at every category of fair. Here’s a distillation of the general consensus.
Art Basel: Large work. High prices. Improved layout. Art Nova and Art Positions came into their own. Swarms of high-end buyers …
The Appeal of SEVEN
by admin on November 24, 2010 in Artworld Salon
Back in 2006, in an article titled “A storm of art as Baselmania engulfs Miami,” New York Times art critic Roberta Smith predicted that
Art fairs will continue to flourish until the bottom falls out of the art market, or until dealers, who invented them, decide that there is a better …
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