Art-World Reality TV

So art has finally come down to this...

"If Andy Warhol were alive today, said art gallery owner Bill Powers, he'd be an executive producer of reality television. Specifically, for Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, the Bravo network's stab at applying the Project Runway format to fine art."

Almost Famous -- Bill Powers Braves Art-World Reality TV

Bill Powers,

Whenever I want to do a minimal painting I get the heebee-jeebees and end up with something like this II

Whenever I want to do a minimal painting I get the heebee-jeebees and end up with something like this II - Acrylic on Paper - 20 x 35 inches

Paintings available for sale here

Whenever I want to do a minimal painting I get the heebee-jeebees and end up with something like this I

Whenever I want to do a minimal painting I get the heebee-jeebees and end up with something like this I - Acrylic on Paper - 22 x 30 inch


Whenever I want to do a minimal painting I get the heebee-jeebees and end up with something like this I (detail)

Paintings for sale here

Mark Rothko and selling out in the art world

"Rothko was the last in a line of angst-ridden, soul-searching artists who had a love-hate relationship with his own success. For him, selling art was secondary to making it—in sharp contrast to the 21st-century art world, where dealers scramble to sign up the next hot young painter, fresh out of grad school, and where money is the only marker of success."

The story here from Newsweek

Don't forget to go through the slideshow "Scenes from the visual art bubble, circa 2007" on the link

Rogue urinals

Has the art market gone Dada?

"Critics tend to declare that Marcel Duchamp's urinal, entitled “Fountain”, is the most important artwork of the 20th century. Yet its standing as a collectable object has always lagged behind its value as an idea. The work questioned notions of authenticity when Duchamp first purchased the mass-produced plumbing fixture and signed it “R. Mutt” in 1917. Now, over 40 years after the artist's death, the problem of legitimacy remains relevant as unauthorised urinals have been discovered circulating in Italy. The art world loves paradoxical conceptual gestures, but it seems that someone might be taking the piss."





From the Economist. Story here

Trying to think like Koons is almost an oxymoron

“Skin Fruit” is a shapeless amalgam of big names, big dicks, and big price tags, crowded into too little space."

Guess everyone is sick of this show by now and all the bad press,,,

Jerry Saltz gets off the bus from NY Mag

I see