Daniel’s Value and Ideas #5: Artworld Selling Styles
21 February 2014 • daniel barnes
The commercial gallery is a stage on which an elaborate and mysterious performance takes place.
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.