Understanding the Art Market
Thomas Galbraith, director of analytics at artnet, discusses with The Street the art market, what The Scream famously achieved, whether a crash is coming, and how the new artnet Indices and artnet Analytics Reports makes sense of it all.
Speaking of art as an investment, now you can track it with an index, just like any other financial vehicle.
In short: art is a terrible investment. Buy art if you love it, but not if you’re trying to make money.
(Source: hydeordie)
Stipple portraits drawn with a pen? How I pity your American inadequacy. In China, it’s done with ROCKS.
Here’s a great resource for art lovers here on Tumblr!
http://artblogstofollow.tumblr.com/
We’re honored to have made the list, and with folks like Supersonic Electronic, Booooooom, the Silver Screen Society and Hi-Fructose Magazine featured, are definitely in good company!
Tumblr is definitely the most arts-friendly social media site, so please reblog and check out all the links above!
Daily Pic: Would it be speaking ill of the dead to say that Thomas Kinkade was a terrible artist who made important art? Since his death on Friday, at 54, we’ve all been barraged with his sickly-sweet images of days gone by, set in a United States that has never existed. But as I claim on today’s Daily Beast, those Kinkadian fantasies give an accurate, realist take on a certain kind of American escapism that is very much with us today. This Daily Pic shows an unusual Kinkade called “Indy Excitement, 100 Years of Racing at Indianapolis Motor Speedway” that brings his vision fully up to date. Kinkade managed to frost even this modern scene, however noisy and smelly in acual life, with the same sugar coating that’s on his gingerbread houses. I note especially how artfully Kinkade links past and present, fantasy and fact, by putting a “Music Man” straw boater on one of his 21st-century subjects, and a procession of vintage race cars down on the tarmac. They look more like toys than machines; you could argue that all Kinkade’s art returns us to childhood. (Photo courtesy The Thomas Kinkade Company / AP Photos)
The Daily Pic, along with more global art news, can also be found on the Art Beast page at TheDailyBeast.com.
Holy cow. Blake Gopnik, who had so thoroughly savaged J. Seward Johnson, is softening on Thomas Kinkade!
James Turrell, Skyspace, 2000
Lights are programmed to flood the underside and/or walls of the buildings in response to variations in the natural light visible through the aperture cut into the roof. As the sky transitions from light to dark the interior lights generate a range of hues in the skyspace.
Tourists in Italy, 1990, Thomas Struth (top) vs. Martin Parr (bottom).
Richard Serra, My Curves Are Not Mad, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
While we’re at it, here’s another Serra, this one from Dallas.
Richard Serra, Vortex, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
My photo, taken from inside the thing.
