- The madness of the market (TIAF 3/4)
‘So what’s going on here, my loves?’
Jerry Saltz cooed this to his rapt audience at the Sunday talk mentioned in yesterday’s post, and despite going on to assess our present art fair circumstances as ‘pretty effed up’ he received naught but sycophantic chuckles in return. But let’s face it, sychophantic chuckles are the […]
- Some would be inspired… (TIAF 2/4)
When facing down the offerings of over a hundred art galleries plus some dozen peripheral projects, questions of quality tend to fade into insignificance - the vast majority of work is certainly going to be technically skilled, but to stand out from this crowd, good just isn’t good enough.
Of course, it also helps to literally […]
- A Primer on Fine Art Research
Last night, York University played host to Dr. Bruce Brown, the Dean of the University of Brighton’s Faculty of Art and Architecture and general go-to guy on research in the creative arts in the UK. Given that this issue he was addressing - research practices in the practical and sometimes-ephemeral creative arts - is […]
