http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog Opinion Analysis Debate Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:34:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to ArtWorld Salon contributor Alexandra Peers, in an article for Vanity Fair online, the Royal Family of Qatar has celebrated a decade of high profile Art buying by spending that amount on the last of Cezanne's Card Players.  (The painting was purchased from the estate of the late Greek ... http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2012/02/what-would-you-do-with-250-million/ One week ago today the Occupy Museums (OM) offshoot of OWS staged a protest inside MoMA during which a banner was unfurled and promptly confiscated by MoMA security.  (Read a decent account here.)  Today, in a cheeky but perhaps brilliant move, OM sent a letter to MoMA's Acquisitions Committee claiming that the ... http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2012/01/occupy-museums-moma-and-insta-history/ Our own András Szántó has just written an interesting article for the Art Newspaper on the purpose of museums; at least as proclaimed by those museums' own mission statements.  (You can watch a video of a related discussion, hosted by András at Art Basel Miami Beach here.)   The article covers ... http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2011/12/museums-mission-statements/ Making its way across the web as I write is a story about the exploitation of performers at the hands of Marina Abramović.  ARTINFO is running the best recap of the story, and Hrag Vartanian at Hyperallergic has picked it up and carried it as well, but here's a brief: Abramović was tapped ... http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2011/11/on-seeing-a-performance-of-exploitation/ http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2011/10/artoon-25/ I have been watching and, in spirit, am all for the Occupy Wall Street protests because I feel the issues being raised need to be discussed. I truly wish the banks would get involved, to help balance out the conversation, but apparently they're too busy raking in record profits. That ... http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2011/10/occupy-the-museumsor-simply-dont/ Its that time of year: this week 22 overachieving individuals received a phone call from the MacArthur Foundation, telling them that they had received the famous so-called “genius” grant, totaling a no-strings attached amount of $500,000. The list of grantees this year includes a radio host, a parasitologist, a ... http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2011/09/where-the-geniuses-go/ http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2011/09/artoon-24/ Talk about a double dip recession has coaxed the oracles of the art world away from their swimming pools to their laptops. Savvy trend-watchers have been grappling with a surprisingly meaty question for this time of the year? Will the art market follow equities into “correction” territory, or worse, this ... http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2011/08/double-dipping/ Sarah Thornton in The Economist magazine recently described the art market as a bubble bath – an apt metaphor for a market made up of a myriad distinct markets for individual artists, each one expanding or contracting at any given time. It appears that, as of late, the foam is ... http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2011/07/are-we-booming-yet/