Posts Tagged ‘museums’
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 [...]
Vera Frenkel in Museums After Modernism
Many artists and people working in other, non-museum, or alternate-type organizations are suspicious of museums with their business-like hierarchies, authoritative institutional character, big budgets, fundraising galas, etc. And in fact, we don’t share much in common with them. We don’t collect art and therefor neither carry the [...]
