33 Artists in 3 Acts

33 Artists in 3 Acts offers unprecedented access to a dazzling range of artists, from international superstars to unheralded art teachers. Sarah Thornton’s beautifully paced, fly-on-the-wall narratives include visits with Ai Weiwei before and after his imprisonment and Jeff Koons as he woos new customers in London, Frankfurt, and Abu Dhabi. Thornton meets Yayoi Kusama…

The Banker’s Guide to Art

Documentary taking an inside look at the high-stakes and sometimes murky world of art collecting. In recent years, the value of London’s art market has soared to unprecedented heights, driven by the nouveau riche of the financial world, whose money has poured into the bank accounts of dealers, galleries and auction houses.   According to…

The Supermodel and the Brillo Box: Back Stories and Peculiar Economics from the World of Contemporary Art

Acquiring contemporary art is about passion and lust, but it is also about branding, about the back story that comes with the art, about the relationship of money and status, and, sometimes, about celebrity. The Supermodel and the Brillo Box follows Don Thompson’s 2008 bestseller The $12 Million Stuffed Shark and offers a further journey…

Alternative Art New York: 1965–1985, University of Minnesota, 2002

By the mid-1960s, New York’s art establishment — its major museums and galleries — had ceased to reflect the city’s diversity and had largely ignored the decade’s social, political, and cultural ferment. In response, marginalized artists created an oppositional network of organizations, exhibit spaces, and cooperative galleries that both paralleled and challenged the status quo….

Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture (Marxism and Culture)

Art is big business, with some artists able to command huge sums of money for their works, while the vast majority are ignored or dismissed by critics. This book shows that these marginalized artists, the ‘dark matter’ of the art world, are essential to the survival of the mainstream and that they frequently organize in…

On Curating: Interviews with Ten International Curators

On Curating, Carolee Thea’s second volume of interviews with ten of today’s leading curators, explores the intellectual convictions and personal visions that lay the groundwork for the most prestigious and influential exhibitions in the world today. Among the aesthetic and theoretical issues raised are the relationship between artist and curator, globalism, post-colonialism, capitalism, the future…

Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum: Time, Space, and the Archive by Griselda Pollock

Continuing her feminist reconceptualization of the ways we can experience and study the visual arts, world renowned art historian and cultural analyst, Griselda Pollock proposes a series of new encounters through virtual exhibitions with art made by women over the twentieth century. Challenging the dominant museum models of art and history that have been so…

I like your work: art and etiquette

“The auction houses, museums, the galleries, the artists, the curators all have their unwritten rules and they all intersect.” A lot of rules and expectations in the art world are based on common sense, and the understanding that there is a social hierarchy. Knowing one’s place in the food chain is important to survival in…

ART/WORK _________ Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career

“It is vital to stay connected with the art community. You need to know what’s out there and to view it in person whenever possible.” “Professional opportunities in the art world almost always come out of personal connections, and community is the way to make them.” Maintain a public presence / social media presence of…

Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space Brian O’Doherty

“Galleries are a place of worship. Art is a religion.” The gallery creates a space out of time, allowing the concept of eternal beauty and immortal artworks, and yet the gallery maintains a form structured from the modernist perspective, and does not evolve through time. “We have now reached a point where we see not…

The Universal Survey Museum

“The museum’s primary function is ideological,” to serve as a place of worship, and to signal the importance of it’s inhabitants: artwork. I wonder at the constraints of the religious sentiment of the museum, and the resulting effect a museum has on the art itself. Part of the universality of the museum is the effect…

Museum, Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Danny Danziger

A collection of interviews detailing the systems and structures in place that ensure the successful function of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Malcolm Daniel Interview, likely questions: Why photography? Which is your favorite work? What makes that work so special? Tell me about the collection you’re working on. How would you compare your tastes now to…