http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog Opinion Analysis Debate Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:11:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This wasn’t supposed to happen. Arts journalism is supposed to be going down the tubes. But here in New York, two arts sections are being expanded, with professional writers, editors, and, for now, what counts for acres of newsprint space these days. Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal is making culture ... http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2010/03/plot-twist-for-arts-reporting/ After the noughtie boom and the '08-'09 bust, and even now with the art market engine appearing to turn over and offer the promise of a restart, might it not be time to leave behind the idea of assessing the art fairs as "shows" that are akin to exhibitions at ... http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2010/03/sometimes-a-fair-is-just-a-fair/ There must be an astronomical term for this week’s stellar array of events in New York. It’s certainly a cluster of some sort. Once distant galaxies, the ADAA Art Fair and the Armory Show, are opening on back-to-back nights this year, forming a unified mega-event constellation. They are flanked in ... http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2010/03/miami-syndrome-in-new-york/ Three makes a trend, the adage goes. So here's one: The upcoming Whitney Biennial, the National Academy's Annual Invitational, and Site Santa Fe have sharply curtailed their rosters of exhibiting artists. The reason is money. The outcome is just what the art world needs. Bloated biannials and survey shows were ... http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2010/02/three-cheers-for-austerity/ Statistics, statistics, and more statistics. Now that it’s snowing again and I am trapped in the house, I have cracked open the revised and expanded edition of Skate’s Art Investment Handbook. This well-informed, astute, efficiently written compendium deserves to be in the library of anyone seriously interested in the art ... http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2010/02/art-investor-numerology/ Can you keep a secret? But please don’t tell anyone, because if you do, knowing how the art world is, no one will go see the Tino Sehgal show at the Guggenheim. No, its not that the museum’s walls are completely bare and that the admission price continues to ... http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2010/02/is-it-just-art-or-is-it-progress/ President Obama in his address last night studiously avoided the phrase, “the State of the Union is strong.” If there were a State of the Union for the arts, the speaker—Who would it be?—would likely have made the same choice. For all is not well on the cultural ramparts. Just ... http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2010/01/the-state-of-the-arts-is-%e2%80%a6-blah/ Those living in Europe are sometimes surprised by the shockwaves that private sector economic turmoil creates for Arts Institutions in the US.   If you come from a region where large portions of a Museum's budget comes from the public purse (in some countries it is all government funded) it can ... http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2010/01/whither-now-museums/ UPDATE: It's official. Deitch is the new director of MoCA. _______ The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), which barely survived closing last year, is rumored to be close to announcing that they will appoint New York art dealer Jeffrey Deitch as their new director. (Other hats still in the ... http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2010/01/whats-so-wrong-with-deitch-at-moca/ I attended a wake for I.D. magazine last night in New York. Not I.D., the fashion magazine. I.D. the design magazine. Now dead. Like so many of its recently-axed midsize peers, I.D. -- International Design -- leaves a much larger hole in our cultural landscape than its modest circulation numbers ... http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2010/01/requiem-for-a-magazine/