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Daniel’s Value and Ideas #81: Top Doig
Artnet has published its list of the top ten most expensive living British artists at auction for 2015. The list betrays a gentle change in the current of British art,
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #79: Baselitz, the Loan Ranger
Georg Baselitz has demanded the removal of all his loaned works from German museums in protest against regulations regarding the export of artworks.
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #66: Experience Matters
Tabish Khan wrote an insightful piece this week on how the prices of artworks are calculated. He identified two contributing factors: one, the artist’s price point at a given time, which is presumably a function of the strength of the artist’s brand; and two, the size of the artwork.
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #60: Caught Up in the Century’s Anxiety
In 2014, the global art market grossed €51billion, which is a 7% increase on 2013 and the highest total ever recorded. These are the findings of Dr Clare McAndrew, who every year compiles the TEFAF Art Market report before jetting off to the one of the artworld’s most prestigious art fairs in Maastricht.
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #56: The Usual Suspects
Auction week heralded the usual suspects: Richter, Hirst, Warhol, Fontanna, Boetti, Klein, Murillo, Twombly, Baselitz, Dubuffet, Basquaiat. Different works, but the same artists endlessly circulating the market.
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #55: We Need to Talk about Damien
Damien Hirst sold a lot of very expensive art between 2007 and 2008. So much that he became the world’s most expensive living artist, which gave him the acumen to do whatever he liked. Next week, the seminal Pill Cabinet Lullaby, Winter is going under the hammer at Christie’s, but it has a curious history as an unfulfilled promise that had momentous effects.
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #51: The Balloon Monkey is Not What It Seems
A spectre is haunting the artworld. In the foyer of Christie’s New York, at over twelve feet tall and made of painted steel, Jeff Koons’ Balloon Monkey (Orange) (2006-2013) presides over daily business.
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #50: Explaining Artworld Jargon
In order to combat this, contemporary art has developed jargon that purports to explain every nuance of the artworld, but it often only deepens the mystery.
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #47: Franco, My Dear, I Don’t Give a Damn
James Franco is everywhere, doing everything, all the time. He is an actor, writer, musician, English Literature student, teacher, director and world war agitator. Now, like everyone else in Hollywood, he is an artist, but one who exposes the heartbreaking sycophancy and emptiness of the artworld.
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