opinions on today's art market

"Art had become and unknowing extension of the experience economy - a system no longer at the forefront of engagements with mass culture but instead its most elaborate fruition...

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...Our greatest possible mistake in art, I suspected, was to think we were so special, or even that we were somehow set apart."

 Tim Griffin, Artforum, February 2010

opinions on today's art market

let's altogether say goodbye to the term "art business" and let's say hello to "art industry"!

What was once called the art business transformed itself into an "industry engaged in the production of visuality and meaning."

Isabelle Graw "High Price, Art Between the Market and Celebrity Culture", Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2009, p.12 

franz west knows best

christopher wool:

when looking at a pizza some people have seen an image of the virgin mary... i simply see a reflection of my own face... and you??

franz west:  

me,too.

flash art issue no. 273 p. 69

das Geheimnis der Begabung:

"Begabung ist vielleicht

 überhaupt nichts anderes 

als glücklich sublimierte Wut"  

Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 72