That's Portfolio's Felix Salmon and I on Bloggingheads discussing the art market: from Eli Broad and supercollectors to the Russian oligarchs to parallels between an art world in crisis today (Murakami, Koons, Hirst) and yesterday (Halley, Salle, and Fischl). Did I forget to mention Julian Schnabel?!
Click here to reach a screen with chapter headings and permalinks as well as other Bloggingheads features with such estimable characters as Chris Hayes and Eve Fairbanks.
One theme Salmon and I touch on during the recording is the sense that poverty is a virtue and that artists and dealers operating in a declining market are free in a way that they are not when they are selling art. I call this a crock in the Guardian.
In print: Reviews in Art in America, Art Papers, and Art Lies.
And one more thing! I am part of an Internet Food Association. Also! I helped to jury the "Unlimited Edition" show for the Arlington Arts Center.
Gestures hit the studio a few weeks back, and we've now mixed and very nearly mastered our (title tk) album. The first two songs listed on our myspace site came out of the studio session ("Conceptual Seduction" and "Doritos").
So there's art work to be reproduced and decisions to be made about what to do with the damn thing when it's ready—disc? vinyl+mp3s?—so they won't be available before the end of this year, unless, that is, you hear us play the songs live, tonight, at the Black Cat. We're on the back stage with the luscious Edie Sedgwick and Big Gold Belt, who debuts.
