Lurk much?
If you do, and you live in NYC, you might be interested in joining me and a couple other sociology blogger types for lunch on Thursday. Email me for the details – plevin {at} barnard {dot} edu. Might be fun.
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.
- 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.”
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
- Contours of the project (1)
- Jenn Lena: I’m wondering about art that resists monetization, like performance...
- Thanksgiving Wrap-up – the good, the bad, and the prison toilet (2)
- Selfishness, finance, and the ‘greatest trade ever’ (5)
- Peter: M – yes, let’s call this structural problems. And the systemic bases...
- The Epicurean Dealmaker: Peter & M — The commercial provides a bad analogy. M...
[...] June 4, 2008 by Andrew I’m an invitee, not the inviter, to this party, so it’s presumptuous of me to advertise this to others – but hey, the rule is the more the merrier! So if you’re in New York City tomorrow (Thursday, June 5), have an affinity for sociological blogging/bloggers, join us for lunch at noon. Peter’s invite here. [...]