Sentences with phrase «of the contemporary art market»

If the very top of the contemporary art market is thriving, one might ask why it matters that smaller galleries are closing and gallery districts relocating across the country.

He has written extensively on contemporary art, including recently on the inner workings of the contemporary art market.

«PULSE is an environment that encourages interaction and we take pride in showcasing a microcosm of the contemporary art market in which artists can be discovered, acquired and supported,» stated fair director Helen Toomer in a press release.

Scott Zieher: Fairs are an important part of the contemporary art market and they're integral to broadening a gallery's exposure.

The economy of the religious household may seem set apart from worldly priorities, but perhaps echoes the experience and vocation of many artists as they eke out a living in the context of the contemporary art market.

Of the 64 works offered at last night's auction 11 failed to find buyers, including the mystifying «sculpture» of Hoover vacuums by the darling of the contemporary art market Jeff Koons.

Sean Scully is that rara avis: the abstract painter who has flown to the heights of the vaulted empyrean of the contemporary art market.

Unusually this farewell was complemented by an unflattering assessment of the contemporary art market:

In works from the 1980s through the present, the influence of the contemporary art market seems to inform selections in painting and sculpture as much as, or more than, the interests of posterity.

The first thing such visitors might notice is Finland's almost total lack of contemporary art market.

In 2004, she compiled a report for the Arts Council, Market Matters: The dynamics of the contemporary art market.

Given the tentative state of the stock markets and the national economy, this should prove to be quite a test of the contemporary art market, although this evening sale really consists of more post-war modern masters than «contemporary» artists although it does have works by Jeff Koons (b. 1955) and Robert Gober (b. 1954).

They got pizza, we got Warhol (and domination of the contemporary art market... and pizza too).

Journal specializes in mid-career or emerging artists who often get lost in the frenetic, fickle pace of the contemporary art market, where careers are frequently made and then broken within months.

CONTEXT has proven (in a short period of time) to be a powerful mixture the art market factors which are important to both top collectors and those who are practically just entering the vast field of the contemporary art market.

Could we be in for a rough ride this fall in the high - flying, gravity - defying top end of the contemporary art market?

(co-authored with Philip Dodd)(BBC Books 1991); Moving Targets 2: A User's Guide to British Art Now (Tate 2000); Market Matters: The Dynamics of the Contemporary Art Market (Arts Council England 2004) and Owning Art: The Contemporary Art Collector's Handbook (co-authored with Judith Greer)(Cultureshock Media 2006) Her latest book, Commissioning Contemporary Art: A Handbook for Curators, Collectors and Artists was published by Thames & Hudson in October 2012.

Toomer, a former gallerist and curator, has made some noticeable changes to the fair, opening a dialogue between emerging and consolidated artists and putting emphasis on the fair's commitment to present a cohesive overview of the contemporary art market today.

Like both, Waters creates work that does not necessarily jibe with the trends and tastes of the contemporary art market.

The Afternoon Session in New York presents a variety of attractively valued works from the masters of Minimalism and key figures of the Pictures Generation to the stars of the downtown New York art scene, Jean - Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, and the very top level of the contemporary art market, including Mark Bradford, Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Harold Ancart, to name a few.

With offices based in London, a / political opened The Foundry as an experimental art space, hosting ambitious projects outside the controls of the contemporary art market.

LeLoup's rudimentary understanding of the machinations of the contemporary art market is quickly laid bare via the negligent direction he gives to his young charges, each of whom is tasked with creating examples of work specific to the slightly outdated «Now» proffered by LeLoup, who makes a series of promises to each child, to be delivered upon completion of a salable work.

She received a Masters degree from Harvard University, where she wrote her dissertation «A New Era: An Analysis of the Contemporary Art Market Bubble.»

Stein's story of the birth of the contemporary art market, written in vivid prose, is also a story of how a counterculture was coopted.

Our presentation in main the Galleries section of Art Basel Hong Kong reflects the cutting edge of the contemporary art market.

No discussion of the globality of the contemporary art market is complete without mentioning Damien Hirst.

One doubts that this can be true, but if it is, it would mean that the Turner Prize - and perhaps a large slice of the contemporary art market - is being manipulated for financial gain.

The Mark Moore Gallery also pioneered the development of contemporary art market in Korea over the last 25 years, producing inaugural Korean exhibitions for artists such as Ed Ruscha, Christopher Wool, Gunter Forg, Vernon Fisher, Lucas Samaras, Joel Shapiro, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, John McCracken, Sol Lewitt, Jannis Kounellis, Richard Artschwager, and Gerhard Richter.

The high estimate for the combined sales of Hirst's works was # 98 million; by the end of the second evening, the lot had totaled # 111.5 million — and represented the peak of the contemporary art market.

To further underscore the broadening base of the Contemporary art market away from the eight - figure mega-trophies, the top ten lots only accounted for one third of the sales total.

Although the top lot was a work by Gerhard Richter, the artist who accounts for the largest share of the Contemporary art market's public turnover these days, the sales showed continuing signs of market rotation as new names increased their value on the auction block.

Pier Paolo Bandini (1013 Grand Street, Bushwick): The Italian artist will be showing works from his latest project, Hyper Conceptual Interstellar Artist (HCIA), which looks like a kind of parody of the contemporary art market's brightest stars, but, according to Bandini's description, the (fictional) HCIA artists «develop projects which go beyond the geographic confines of their own native country in order to dress a stellar profile with a silk scarf and velvet gloves.»

The Frieze art fair and all the commercial gallery openings that constellate around it will once again confirm that London is a hub of the contemporary art market.

In recent years, many commentators have observed the migration of the Contemporary Art market toward becoming a Masterpiece market where the base of sales for lower - quality works narrows and market volume gravitates toward A + works.

The London sales in March of 2017 reaffirmed the fundamental strength of the Contemporary art market, not through astounding prices or record - setting sales of the world's most famous artists but through a broad base of transactions.

SS: There are quite a few artists working in photography who are very much part of the contemporary art market and represented by galleries who have multi-disciplinary programs, a group of which are exhibiting in the fair.

While most recent painting has drifted toward a formalist abstraction that offers almost nothing to talk or write about, that very emptiness has recently become notable, as the new demand for these young, meaningless abstractions continues to redefine huge segments of the contemporary art market.