shining a light on the shadowy fine art industry
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's Free Stamp (1991).
Courtesy of Flickr user John Kannenberg.
This week, two reminders that our values—meaning numbers and principles—can get us into all kinds of trouble…
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Installation view featuring artist Jillian Mayer (lower) inside her exhibition "Post Posture" at Postmasters. Courtesy of Postmasters.
This week, stories about the size and impact of online audiences…
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Barbara Kruger's Untitled (Know Nothing, Believe Anything, Forget Everything) (1987/2014). Courtesy of Flickr user Steve Rhodes.
This week, stories about the fog-dense borderland between art and publicity…
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Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, from the Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco, 1508-1512). Courtesy of Wikimedia.
This week, reminders that real problems (and real solutions) often ask us to go all the way to the root…
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Jimme Durham's Something... Perhaps a Fugue or an Elegy (2005). Courtesy of Flickr user Sharon Mollerus.
This week, we consider stories that highlight the potential benefits of art-market collaboration—and the surefire pitfalls of its absence…
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Adel Abdessemed's Taxidermy (2010). Courtesy of Flickr user Lux & Jourik.
This week, two stories proving the biggest scandals are often the most predictable…
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Eva Papamargariti's Precarious Inhabitants, installation view, TRANSFER Download at NADA New York. Courtesy of TRANSFER and Hellions Studio.
This week, after plunging headlong into the fair frenzy, I needed to circle back to the big picture…
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Odilon Redon's The Cyclops (ca. 1914). Courtesy of Wikimedia.
This week, stories about appearances, disappearances, and what’s behind them…
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's The Incredulity of St. Thomas (ca. 1600).
Image credit: Wikimedia.
For this edition, three stories about art-industry resurrections…
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Installation view: "Tutankhamun: His Tomb and His Treasures," Museum of Museums, Manchester.
Image credit: Flickr user Ann Wuyts.
In honor of Presidents Day, going back in time to contextualize one issue of art-world importance…
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