Daniel’s Value and Ideas #84: The Seaside Town They Forgot to Close Down
28 August 2015 • daniel barnes
The Art Car Boot Fair, which traditionally takes place annually in Brick Lane, travels to Margate this year.
Tag: Value and Ideas
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #83: In Search of the Warhol Truth
21 August 2015 • daniel barnes
An auction house in Mississippi has sold a rare early Warhol for $247,000. The portrait of fashion designer Coco Chanel,
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #82: The Punk Potter and the Philosopher’s Moan
14 August 2015 • daniel barnes
August is a quiet time in the artworld. Galleries have summer shows that drag on, nothing new opens and everyone who can afford to take a month off goes on holiday. The rest of us are still here, not exactly slaving away because there’s nothing to slave at, but languishing in the doldrums. Now the first shards of light are starting to creep through…
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #81: Top Doig
7 August 2015 • daniel barnes
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,
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #80: The Importance of Being Tracey
31 July 2015 • daniel barnes
Being Tracey Emin is a full time occupation, although probably not as labour intensive as being Gilbert & George. She is saddled with the unenviable task of perpetuating the myth of Mad Tracey from Margate, which is the source of all her power, while also drifting gently into middle age and maturing as an artist to ensure her longevity. So one wonders how she has time for lavish birthday parties, building controversial new houses and judging drawing competitions.
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #79: Baselitz, the Loan Ranger
24 July 2015 • daniel barnes
Georg Baselitz has demanded the removal of all his loaned works from German museums in protest against regulations regarding the export of artworks.
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #78: Psycho Drama, or When YBAs Go Mad
17 July 2015 • daniel barnes
According to the sensationalist headline in the Independent on Wednesday, Douglas Gordon had gone ‘on an axe rampage after receiving poor reviews’ for his new play at Manchester’s HOME theatre. For one chilling moment we wondered if the strain of being one of the lesser YBAs had finally overpowered him, or if perhaps he suddenly regretted that ghastly Pace show with James Franco ?
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #77: I’d Be Safe and Warm If I Was in LA
10 July 2015 • daniel barnes
High up in the Hollywood Hills, an Englishman is grappling with his demons. After nearly a decade in Bridlington, David Hockney has moved back to Los Angeles, following the tragic death of his young assistant Dominic Elliott.
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #76: Top of the Flops
3 July 2015 • daniel barnes
But then something mystifying happened, something so strange that it feels like we are free-floating in some kind of art market panic room of a cosmos. Francis Bacon’s Study for a Pope 1 did not sell.
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #75: The Misguided Turn around Kapoor’s Dirty Corner
26 June 2015 • daniel barnes
Anish Kapoor has got himself into a spot of bother with a sculpture at the Palace of Versailles
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #74: The Pay Me Girl Has Had Enough of the Bleeps
19 June 2015 • daniel barnes
But it was also about how much money you could throw at art until art died.
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #73: The Interpretation of Freud
12 June 2015 • daniel barnes
A collection of Lucian Freud’s letters is to go on sale at Sotheby’s on 2nd July
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #71: Punk Potter
29 May 2015 • daniel barnes
Grayson Perry was the first transvestite potter to win the Turner Prize, and will probably hold that illustrious title for some time to come.
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #70: Girl Power and Prozac
22 May 2015 • daniel barnes
The big news of the week is that Camden’s super-cool Cob Gallery, headed up by Victoria Williams and Polly Stenham, has secured exclusive representation of Stella Vine. You can see some of Stella’s older works on Cobs Stand this weekend at Art15.
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #69: Into the Forest
15 May 2015 • daniel barnes
The exhibition, Into the Forest, explores the idea that it is easy to invent a religion through taking a critical stance of the rise of capitalism at the expense of the natural world.
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #68: She Screams for Britain Daddio!
8 May 2015 • daniel barnes
Let’s take a moment to congratulate Sarah Lucas on being one of the best artists alive.
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #67: The Doors to the Future
1 May 2015 • daniel barnes
In 1992, before the YBA phenomenon fully exploded, Gary Hume took a drastic decision: he stopped making the paintings of mundane hospital doors that had gained him critical recognition and the patronage of Charles Saatchi. It should have been the end of the line for Hume, and perhaps it should have signalled a warning to his gallerist, but both survived to demonstrate that sometimes in art doing the right thing pays off.
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #66: Experience Matters
24 April 2015 • daniel barnes
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.
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #65: The World Who Sold the Man
17 April 2015 • daniel barnes
The death of Kurt Cobain was one of the seminal moments of the 90s for all the wrong reasons.
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #64: First Steps in the Artworld
10 April 2015 • daniel barnes
Ian ‘H’ Watkins (hereafter, ‘H’) from Steps Becomes an Artist
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #63: Copyright and Copy Wrong
7 April 2015 • daniel barnes
In January this year, a Belgian court found Luc Tuymans guilty of plagiarism for using a photograph as the source of a painting.
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #62: Hayden Kays – More Postmodern than Postmodernism
27 March 2015 • daniel barnes
Hayden Kays’ art performs an immaculate fusion of Pop Art aesthetics with YBA sensibilities. His point of reference is the relationship between the present moment in mass culture and the ghosts of the past …
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #61: All That Glitters is Not Goal
20 March 2015 • daniel barnes
Sam Taylor-Johnson’s video of David Beckham sleeping is the perfect portrait: it captures a man in the most natural, compromising position of unconsciousness, where there is no scope for posing but only the unadulterated swell of humanity, warts and all…
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #60: Caught Up in the Century’s Anxiety
13 March 2015 • daniel barnes
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.