November 13th, 2007 · Comments Off
Herbert and Dorothy Vogel - (NY Times)
Times, The secrets of successful art collectors:
“So what makes a great collector? Money obviously helps. The world of collecting is dominated by a roll-call of grand dynastic names. It is a playground of tycoons. But cash alone, in this game, is far from sufficient. J. Paul Getty missed dozens of opportunities because he was mean, whereas the Menils, even though they were wealthy, were prepared to go into debt for something they really desired. And a handful of great collectors have started out with extraordinarily little. There are the Vogels, for instance, a childless couple who, meeting their living expenses with her librarian’s salary, spent his entire income as a post-office clerk amassing a spectacular collection of Minimalist pieces.”
Lees ook: James Stourton’s top five art collectors.
En luister: James Stourton, de baas van Sotheby’s UK, in BBC’s Start of The Week over zijn recent verschenen boek The secrets of successful art collectors
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Tags: art,art collectors,art market,dorothy vogel,herbert vogel,james stourton
October 5th, 2007 · Comments Off
Slate: My Kid Could Paint That
“Marla Olmstead made her first abstract painting while still diapers, crouching on her parents’ dining-room table. She was not yet 2. Her big break came when she was 3, and a family friend hung her paintings in a coffee shop in her hometown of Binghamton, N.Y. By the time she was 4, she was scarfing down cookies at the packed opening of her first solo gallery show. A local reporter covered the story, and the New York Times picked it up. Soon, news crews from all over were rushing to report on the adorable blond moppet and her colorful canvases, calling her a “budding Picasso,” a “pint-sized Pollock.” Within a few months, she sold more than $300,000 worth of paintings. And then, just short of her 5th birthday, the bubble burst. In February 2005, 60 Minutes aired a report by Charlie Rose implying that Marla’s father, a night-shift manager at a Frito-Lay plant and an amateur painter himself, was guiding her compositions. Sales of the paintings quickly dried up, the family was barraged with hate mail, and the New York Post gleefully piled on the puns, reporting that “the juvenile Jackson Pollock may actually be a full-fledged Willem de Frauding.”
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“In his new documentary, My Kid Could Paint That, director Amir Bar-Lev traces Marla’s sensational rise and fall, focusing on the media feeding frenzy and on the Olmsteads’ efforts to prove that Marla created her paintings unaided. Whatever the degree of parental coaching, Bar-Lev’s footage reveals a child who clearly enjoys painting. We see her squeezing gobs of thick acrylic paint directly from the tube onto the canvas, smooshing it around with brushes, fingers, and spatulas, and using plastic squeeze bottles to add delicate squiggles and swirls. Yet, when Bar-Lev tries to film her creating a single work from start to finish, the camera-shy toddler grows silly and restless, and in one incriminating scene, begs her father to draw a smiley face on her picture. (He declines, grinning nervously.)”
Zie ook marlaolmstead.com en de Charlie Rose’ 60 minutes.
Tags: amir bar-lev,art,art market,cinema,documentary,marla olmstead
February 20th, 2007 · Comments Off
The Guardian: “Gupta is among a generation of young Indian artists whose commentary tells of a country on the move, fuelled by boiling economic growth and a more materialistic mindset. Despite reflecting these changes in their art, the new generation of painters and sculptors are themselves part of the boom.”
Zie ook Saffronart.com.
Tags: art,art market,india,new delhi,saffronart.com,subodh gupta
November 16th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“Eind dit jaar of begin volgend jaar gaat de Publieke Omroep Uitzendinggemist ook in MPEG4 (H.264) uitzenden. Handig, want dan komen de omroeparchieven op fatsoenlijke wijze ook beschikbaar voor OSX *kruist vingers*”
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“He has developed something approaching a unified theory of art, which hasn’t won him many fans in the art world but does a surprisingly good job of explaining the relative value of the world’s great paintings.”
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“A band of intellectual brothers is mounting a crusade against belief in God. Are they winning converts, or merely preaching to the choir? “
Tags: art,art market,atheism,culture,economics,nl,uitzending gemist
May 19th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“outstanding recursive photo mosaic browser” - (Waxy)
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“It’s been about 75 days since we released Getting Real, the book, in PDF format” “The revenue generated so far is a hair under $175,000.”
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“Los 80s: a gigantic list of 80s videos on YouTube.”
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“It is totally windowless and stretches for at least a mile, although it seems to defy laws of space-time so it may be longer or shorter than that. “
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“Another art market world record is expected to be broken when one of David Hockney’s most significant works comes to auction.”
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“The most common retort against privacy advocates — by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures — is this line: “If you aren’t doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?”"
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“Never before have two pieces of bread been simultaneously placed on the ground directly opposite each other on the globe, thus making an EARTH SANDWICH. The fact that the earth has never been a sandwich is probably why things are so f*cked up”
Tags: 80s,art,art market,books,data mining,david hockney,music,photography,privacy,publishing,security,video,web
March 9th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“The current internet does not extend beyond the electronic world. Object hyperlinking aims to extend the internet to the real world by attaching tags with URLs to tangible objects or locations.”
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Present 600: Blend.
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“Sander Veenhof heeft de smaak te pakken. Begin deze week verkocht hij twee helften van een schilderij. Een deel via Marktplaats.nl, het andere via eBay. “
Tags: animation,art,art market,bibliography,lfs,mapping
February 5th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“I V Y Paris is a pretty cool arts collective and gallery with an ambitious agenda. They run an arts newsletter, salon, a Europe-wide rundown of featured listings, a still-germinating but promising guide to Paris hottness, and of course, a blog.”
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““The level of forgery is so high that even our experts, who are very skilled, were unable to see that the paintings were fake,” said Anna Kiseleva, head of the expert department at Grabar.”
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“In mainland China, it’s still a bit early for Impressionist, Modern paintings,”
Tags: art,art market,china,paris,russia
