Archive for December, 2006
What are we doing here?
Welcome to the temporary repository for this semester's research seminar on Art Prices. On this site, we'll keep track of data, reflect on readings and primary analyses, and do some sociologizing.
Stories, links, and places around the web.
- A Hitler Learns video on Jeffrey Deitch and his ascension to curator of the MOCA This is a whole genre, dubbing the climactic scene in Downfall with contemporary schtick. Very funny.
- An article on the 'oops' of fixing torn paintings A woman at an adult education class tripped into a valuable Picasso ($100M or so), tearing it. This article looks at this and other related incidents, assessing what happens next.
- An open letter from OK Go How do you make money from music when people don’t buy music? Ok Go reflects on the state of embedded video.
- Does art need to be 'permanent' to be commodified? “Sehgal makes art that does not require the transformation of any materials. He refuses to add objects to a society that he says is overly encumbered with them.”
- Olav Velthuis talk coming up Olav will be giving a talk entitled “The Return of the 90s. The Art Market in Times of Crisis”, which might be of interest to you.
Culture, Art, Sociology & Related Spaces
- Arts Admin Michael Rushton’s blog – he is the director of the Art Administration program at IU
- Survey Documentation and Analysis Web-based analysis of survey data
- The Art Law Blog Donn Zaretsky does NOT approve of blanket prevention of de-accessioning.
- The De-accessioning Blog Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento thinks de-accessioning should be legal, ethical, and available.
- This Blog Sits at the Grant McCracken’s cultural anthropology blog
Recent Comments
- Commoditization, or something like it (5)
- Michael E. Marotta: The Antwerpen “Sound of Music” video...
- Are Art Auctions any Different from other Markets? (5)
- Michael E. Marotta: Numismatic auctions exhibit most of the features of a fine art...
- Auction claiming – to add to the database (8)