Posts Tagged ‘economics’
The $29 book about the $12 million stuffed shark
Had author Don Thompson started his book, The $12 million stuffed shark: the curious economics of contemporary art, where it ends, with the chapter on Contemporary Art as an Investment, few readers would have made it past chapter one. So sobering is the economist's view of the dismal financial returns to be had from playing the art market, that [...]
Suddenly research is sexy again.
Ottawa is abuzz with research. The Canada Council is said to be convening a meeting of client groups to review their research needs. The Canadian Conference of the Arts released with great fanfare a new study called Waging Culture, A report on the socio-economic status of Canadian visual artists, produced, improbably, by an artist and an art [...]
Margaret Atwood’s Payback
If Margaret Atwood had written Payback in order to pay off a debt like Charles Dickens is said to have been motivated to write A Christmas Carol, perhaps it would have turned out be a better book. Perhaps if she'd had another year to write it: originally her Massey lecture was scheduled for 2009 but was brought forward when a conflict [...]
