In an attempt to find a better way to sell independent films, an entrepreneur holds an auction. – Los Angeles Times 03/01/00
Month: March 2000
A VIEW TO A SALE
- Theoretically any work lent to a museum by a gallery or individual is for sale. But what are the ethics? The director of Australia’s Museum of Contemporary Art has advocated selling exhibitions not primarily to raise money but as a service to artists and to encourage people to buy art. “I have put into our [strategic] plan that we should be taking an active role in encouraging the market,” she said. – Sydney Morning Herald
BOOM TIMES
The Australian art market has taken off, with the take from auction sales doubling in the past three years. The lucrative market has attracted some new players. – Sydney Morning Herald
KIDS’ STUFF
“You read them to your children at bedtime, now you can own them – at a price. The area of the art market that is now growing faster than any other is that of original illustrations to children’s books.” – The Times (UK)
WORD HEIST
Most writers generally don’t mind when historians or students borrow their words, but beware the “new secret plagiarists, the media and communications behemoths whose magazines and newspapers, cable networks and film companies routinely raid the work of biographers to satisfy their ceaseless need for product – at no cost.” – Brill’s Content
HEY, IT WORKS FOR SPORTS STADIUMS AND BOWL GAMES
Broadway’s Roundabout Theater is to be renamed after an airline. Meanwhile, the venerable Winter Garden is expected to be renamed after a car. Corporate branding comes to Broadway. – New York Times
POST-MODERN IN AN “AFTER-MODERN” WORLD
“We’re living in a postmodern world. We don’t know what that means yet. All we know is that what we have now is not the same thing we had had before. We’re ‘after-modern.’ We’ve deconstructed all the foundations of the modern world to see how they were put together in the first place. It’s been a fascinating task, and we’ve been very successful. Problem is we don’t know anything about building foundations. We just know how to take them apart.” – *spark-online
HOLOCAUST TRIAL
British libel trial rehashes details of the Holocaust. Sometimes the trial is a jousting match, with historical documents and incidents as the lances. Other times, the debate is more disturbing. – Salon
ART FROM AN URBAN UNDERWORLD
In a nation with an almost oppressive sense of conformity, the shocking new artists in China’s southern-most province rebel against not only official orthodoxy but even the mainstream avant-garde. It has also become symbolic of a new southern avant-garde that has, in recent years, taken root in the fast-moving Shenzhen region. – ARTnews