This article is the second of a two-part series on fair wages for artists. The first part addressed labor practice inequalities when it come to artists. You can read that article here. While writing this post I had thought of local shining examples in artist compensation and others I would like to see improve. After […]
Morley Safer’s 60 Minutes report was out of touch, superficial, and made up of as much opinion as ignorance. However, he was correct about one thing: on good days the economics of the art world are utterly surreal. Hardly anyone needs to be told about the ultra-rich or art changing hands like futures commodities – sorry, […]
I realize, now that I’ve actually written this article, that I’ve basically made a list of things that don’t deserve to be on an end-of-year list and the effort on a whole may be counterproductive. But it ends here. Though I personally lost interest in these five topics over the course of 2013, they nevertheless […]
I think I can safely surmise that you’ve been pushed into that familiar position before: defender of modern art, champion of the new, experimental, and avant-garde. Modern and contemporary art is lobbed various attacks pretty often (Tilda Swinton’s recent nap at the MoMA didn’t exactly help). A while back on another website, I published a […]
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