14 March 2014 • daniel barnes
The relationship between art and money is complex because it is necessary to the very existence of art in capitalist society, at the same time as being a threat to the integrity of art.
7 March 2014 • daniel barnes
It is worth remembering that whether it is selling exhibition tickets or paintings or even making lucrative sponsorship deals, man cannot live by art alone and that capital rules art just as it does everything else.
28 February 2014 • daniel barnes
They are cultural farmers markets, celebrity hotspots, arenas of business, a capricious day out or a site of curious innovation.
21 February 2014 • daniel barnes
The commercial gallery is a stage on which an elaborate and mysterious performance takes place.
14 February 2014 • daniel barnes
There is a point at which the prices of artworks cease to be shocking, like when a tragedy reaches such biblical proportions that emotional responses make way for pragmatism.
7 February 2014 • daniel barnes
Twenty years ago, a businessman named Martin Lang invested in Chagall’s Nude 1909-10
31 January 2014 • daniel barnes
Celebrity culture inspires a morbid fascination with what somebody is going to do next, as if the whole human drama is monopolised by a notorious few. What, we ask with giddy exhilaration, is Justin Bieber going to do next? The artworld is no exception
21 January 2014 • daniel barnes
Damien Hirst has made close to 1400 Spot Paintings, the latest of which is Mickey Mouse (2012). The first 1365 are chronicled in a hotly anticipated, much-delayed catalogue raisonné, The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011.
