Booming Global Contemporary Art Sales

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tbieter
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Booming Global Contemporary Art Sales

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But is it art? Is it art if someone claiming to be an artist says that it is art?

Here is the controversial 1993 60 Minutes TV program: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id= ... ryMediaBox

Here is the program that aired tonight: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id= ... ryMediaBox Now the contemporary art market is global - a perfect example of unregulated free market capitalism.

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chaz wyman
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tbieter wrote:But is it art? Is it art if someone claiming to be an artist says that it is art?

Here is the controversial 1993 60 Minutes TV program: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id= ... ryMediaBox

Here is the program that aired tonight: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id= ... ryMediaBox Now the contemporary art market is global - a perfect example of unregulated free market capitalism.

Go ArtisticSolution!
Very funny.

Advertisement that you have to interact with, then an old bloke saying 10 words then another ad - fuck that. Sorry I'm just not interested enough to sit through cars ads to get to a guy selling shit no one needs. Capitalism indeed.
tbieter
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Is the discipline of art criticism and the office of the art critic irrelevant today?

"Art made in a riotous spirit of bad taste not only undermines academic notions of correctness and stability, but it also renders itself virtually impervious to criticism, arming itself against attack from realists, modernists, Minimalists, and Post-Minimalists alike by gleefully confessing to its own intentionally questionable quality."
http://www.artnews.com/2012/04/12/when-bad-is-good/
chaz wyman
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tbieter wrote:Is the discipline of art criticism and the office of the art critic irrelevant today?

"Art made in a riotous spirit of bad taste not only undermines academic notions of correctness and stability, but it also renders itself virtually impervious to criticism, arming itself against attack from realists, modernists, Minimalists, and Post-Minimalists alike by gleefully confessing to its own intentionally questionable quality."
http://www.artnews.com/2012/04/12/when-bad-is-good/
There's a clever boy - you have learned to copy&paste.
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