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Art fairs: one artist’s viewpoint
With Art Basel around the corner, this just in from Lisa Ruyter in Vienna: When I was commissioned to do the art for The Armory Show 2004 catalog, I wrote an introduction that was a rhapsody about my...
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The Hirstian knot
Damien Hirst’s decision to sell 223 new pieces direct to auction at Sotheby’s on 15 and 16 September represents the breaking of an unwritten rule: thou shalt not defile your dealer. While threatening...
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And so it starts…
Bloomberg today reported the dramatic drop in prices achieved at all the major auction houses this weekend. Sales by Sotheby’s, Christie’s International and Phillips de Pury & Co made a combined 59...
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New, newest, now, next
It’s the dawn of a new age. No, not another, deeper stratum to the credit crunch, but a new era of art is upon us and it’s called the ‘Altermodern’. So says French curator Nicolas Bourriaud, who was...
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Temperature check in Beijing
So how does it feel where you are? Arriving back in Beijing after 3 months traveling I passed through the requisite temperature checks at the airport (swine flu mania abounds); and so I thought I would...
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Quest for art’s Idol-Talent-Factor-Runway
A new four-part reality show, School of Saatchi, begins tonight on BBC television (and will be viewable online). Six artists from an open submission competition are selected, first by a panel of judges...
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Money for nothing
For its tenth birthday weekend just gone, Tate Modern staged No Soul For Sale, a non-profit ‘Festival of Independents’, bringing 70 artists’ collectives, publishers and non-commercial spaces from all...
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It’s Friezing over here
My barometer keeps jumping. One minute it’s backs-to-the-walls time, the next it’s all lavish parties and third venue vernissages. It has seemed like a growing, healthy trend for performative, lively...
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The season that was
Looking back over the season that just passed, consolidation is the word that best describes the dynamics of the art world now. Large entities are getting larger; smaller ones are still squeezed or...
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The season of our disconnect
I got back from Art Basel this weekend on a plane full of artworld types, with fresh impressions for my interesting disconnects file. First, between the ebullience of the art fair and the dark...
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