Asks: James Mayor. James MayorPhoto: Courtesy The Mayor Gallery The Mayor Gallery’s James Mayor is among the Cork Street dealers who have had to relocate in the wake of a major redevelopment deal, which is set to turn a large swathe of London’s traditional art hub into luxury apartments.
He was lucky enough to move only a few blocks. But Mayor’s new address is symptomatic of wider changes in the whole of London’s commercial art scene, in which developers and mega galleries—many hailing from abroad—increasingly have the upper hand. The Mayor Gallery has been on Cork Street since 1925, premiering in London the works of such giants as Paul Klee, Francis Bacon, and Max Ernst. At the helm of the gallery since the early 1970s, James Mayor has a unique perspective on the way the market has changed in the British capital over the last few decades. Now that you’ve settled in your new premises, how have things changed for you? We’ve done half a season. I’m very worried about it. I’m afraid so. Yes. The Future of Commercial Art Galleries, Part Two. This is the second part of a two-part transcript of a conversation of an artnet roundtable discussion held in May 2014 in artnet’s offices in the Woolworth Building.
The moderator was Anthony Haden-Guest, artnet News columnist and cartoonist, and author of the book True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988). As Haden-Guest put it to the group at the beginning of the discussion (see “New York Dealers Discuss the Future of Galleries, Part One“): What is breakout session? definition and meaning. Art Business Conference. Are Young People Comfortable Spending Big Bucks Online? Sotheby’s chief operating officer Bruno Vinciguerra.
Photo: Courtesy Sotheby’s. As recently as 2006, Sotheby’s management was pooh-poohing the idea of selling fine art and other pricey collectibles online. Executives were still smarting from their failed collaborations with eBay Inc. and Amazon.com, which generated about $150 million in cumulative losses from 1999 to 2002 and few sales. “I have got these little scars all over my body,’’ William Ruprecht, the New York auctioneer’s chief executive and president, said in an August 2006 conference call when asked about Sotheby’s Internet plans.
“This is about number 19 on any list’’ of how to increase sales, he said. Eight years later, Sotheby’s is trying again. Barcelona tendrá su Gallery Weekend. Aparcada -al menos por una buena temporada- la vieja idea de impulsar una gran cita que ponga Barcelona en el mapa de las grandes ferias internacionales de arte, los galeristas buscan fórmulas alternativas que dinamicen un sector especialmente castigado por la crisis.
Una de las que se encuentran más avanzadas es la puesta en marcha del Gallery Weekend Barcelona, un fin de semana de arte al estilo de las que desde hace años se vienen celebrando en Berlín, París, Viena o Nueva York, con una atractiva concentración de exposiciones, performances, actividades, encuentros profesionales o visitas a museos, a cuya llamada acuden en masa artistas, coleccionistas y críticos de todo el mundo. Museums See Different Virtues in Virtual Worlds. Photo LIKE vodka and fun-house mirrors and trips to Japan, the Internet can make you feel bigger than you are.
It persuades vitamin D-starved shut-ins to try their hand as webcam stars. It tempts the rude to imagine their impertinence catching global fire through that perfectly worded comment. It seduces the artisanal cheese maker with visions of a worldwide market beyond the alley boutique. And it can make even the oldest-school art museum wonder: Could our collection reach the villages of China and the universities of Peru and perhaps a prison or two? The Art Market: Clare McAndrew’s Tefaf report. Soft sculpture by Aiko Hachisuka, at the Armory The notoriously opaque art market is difficult to quantify, so figures compiled by art economist Clare McAndrew are always pounced as a way of assessing – if imperfectly – how the market performed in the past year.
Her latest report, released during Maastricht’s European Fine Art Fair, finds that in 2013 the overall market for art and antiques sold through dealers and auction houses, had its second-best year ever and was worth $65.7bn. Only 2007, at the top of the boom, beat that figure with $66.5bn. The US took the lion’s share of the market at 38 per cent, with China (24 per cent) and the UK (20 per cent) in second and third places. It will come as no surprise that the US is where the highest-priced art is traded: more than half of the artworks that sold for more than $1.4m and 60 per cent of those that fetched upwards of $14m went through auction in the US. Bonhams in London is celebrating more than its swish new saleroom.
Benjamin Weil: No hay que subestimar la función del galerista. Entrevistas. Yvon Lambert Slams Art Speculators. Yvon LambertPhoto: via Vabien Blogspot Legendary gallerist Yvon Lambert slammed the investor-centric speculative art market and bemoaned art advisers’ ever-larger roles within the market in an interview with Germany’s FAZ.
Earlier this month, Lambert announced that he will shutter his commercial space after nearly 50 years in the business. In the interview he calls the “explosion in prices for young artists,” over the past year or so, “extremely unhealthy,” going on to note that mega-galleries are very much a part of the price-pumping game. Fundación Arte y Mecenazgo. Villa Reykjavik Fermeture d'Yvon Lambert : le monde de l'art en émoi. L'annonce de la fermeture de la galerie Yvon Lambert, 78 ans, est un coup de tonnerre pour le marché de l'art français.
Mais pas seulement. De Paris à New York et Bruxelles, ses pairs y voient un signe inquiétant du changement des mentalités qui fait de l'art un bien de consommation toujours plus cher. COMPRAR. Margaret Lee on the Unlikely Rise of 47 Canal, Her Artist-Run Gallery. By Andrew M.
Goldstein Over the last few years, one of the most reliably surprising, boundary-pushing, and downright unusual art destinations in New York has been a little gallery on the Lower East Side called 47 Canal. Founded by the artist Margaret Lee and her boyfriend Oliver Newton, the space is devoted to showing art that seems beamed in from an unsettling near future: Stewart Uoo's postapocalyptic waif sculptures, Anicka Yi's surreal culinary concoctions (a soup of Teva dust, shaved sea lice, and antidepressants, say), and Ajay Kurian's pseudo-geological experiments come to mind.
An artist herself who shows at Jack Hanley Gallery—and the studio manager of Cindy Sherman on the side—Lee opened 47 Canal as the second iteration of a devil-may-care gallery and party spot she opened down the block, at 179 Canal Street. The Truth About the Murky Online Art Market. Online art sales are on the rise.
London-based art market research group ArtTactic and the Hiscox Group, a Bermuda-based insurance company, estimate that the online art and collectibles market will see an annual growth rate of 19 percent for each of the next four years, with profits increasing from approximately $1.57 billion in 2013 to $3.76 billion in 2018. This is based on the companies' recent joint study of online art-buying platforms, which sought to determine what percentage of people are using sites like Auctionata, Paddle8, 1stdibs, Artspace, Artsy, Artuner, and Artfinder, what they are buying, and for how much. The report, though extensive, is not exhaustive. Artnet Worldwide Corporation, the owner of artnet News, also owns and operates artnet Auctions, an online auction house and marketplace that sells fine art. How much money are online art sales sites actually making? Are Art Fairs Good for Galleries—Or Killing Them?
Frieze New York, 2013. Photo Naho Kubota. Photo: Courtesy Naho Kubota and Frieze. New York Dealers Discuss the Future of Galleries, Part OneCK - ... The transcript below features the conversation of an artnet roundtable discussion held in May 2014 in artnet’s offices in the Woolworth Building. The moderator was Anthony Haden-Guest, artnet News columnist and cartoonist, and author of the book True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988).
The participants were: Joe Amrhein: Founder-director of Pierogi Gallery, located on North 9th Street in Brooklyn. The gallery’s artist roster includes Nadja Bournonville, Tony Fitzpatrick, Kim Jones, Daniel Zeller, and the late Mark Lombardi. Tamas Banovich: Cofounder of Postmasters Gallery, located on Franklin Street. Sarah Christian: Cofounder of Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden, now merged with Pocket Utopia, located on West 22nd Street. Colombia's Art Scene Heats Up - WSJ. ART PLURAL GALLERY » Collector Series: Interview with Dominique and Sylvain Levy of DSL Collection. The DSL Collection was founded in 2005 but you have been collecting for more than 25 years. How did the adventure begin? This adventure began when we travelled to China because my brother in law was moving there. We were totally shocked by the city and we thought that we should start a Chinese collection in order to find in the art all the energy we were experiencing there.
Indeed, art is one of the mirrors of a society. Extraordinary Assumptions: Galleries vs. Appraisers : Can’t We All Just Get Along? I recently approached a very large, successful gallery for assistance with an appraisal of a work created by an artist they represent. After a decent interval, a polite reply came back: “Dear Jay, I apologize for the delay. Please know we charge a flat fee of $500 with an additional charge of $250/hour for the preparation of an appraisal. Fair or foul: more art fairs and bigger brand galleries, but is the model sustainable? Commercial galleries Fairs Analysis United Kingdom Many galleries acknowledge that supply is a problem, with artists under pressure to produce more work By Georgina Adam.
Market, Issue 236, June 2012Published online: 20 June 2012. Neoliberalismo y autonomía del arte. Tomando esto en cuenta, podríamos definir al neoliberalismo como una sensibilidad que moldea subjetividades, empapa al arte y a la cultura, diferencia al tiempo que homogeniza a la gente, le da forma a las vidas y a los deseos. La sensibilidad neoliberal confunde a la información con el conocimiento, le da forma al espacio y por lo tanto a las relaciones sociales, normaliza la violencia. ¿Se puede hacer una teoría crítica del mercado? “A mitad de mi visita a Volta el viernes, se me ocurrió que lo que ha cambiado más dramáticamente en la era de las ferias de arte es que en gran medida el arte actual parece existir en respuesta a la presión del tiempo. El mercado del arte quiere tomar los museos. Estos días, la ley de Gravitación Universal tira con enorme fuerza del mercado del arte. Luis Camnitzer: “Sería interesante que las ferias asumieran una responsabilidad social” Galleries Try to Find Their Niche.
Photo BERLIN — Is the commercial art gallery obsolete? Fairs and auctions increasingly dominate the ever-expanding art market, attracting wealthy collectors who want to browse as wide a range of works in as short a time as possible. Yet the centuries-old model of the one-person show in a commercial gallery is still the way that most new artists are discovered and their works bought at approachable prices. Are Mid-Size Galleries Disappearing, And Who's To Blame?
Visitors outside a gallery on 27th Street in New York’s Chelsea gallery district. Photo: Etienne Frossard. It was in 2010 that the DODGE gallery opened at 15 Rivington. ¿Se puede hacer una teoría crítica del mercado? Christian Viveros-Fauné: La identificación del arte como valor financiero marcará el legado del arte de hoy por generaciones. Nicole Klagsbrun to close gallery after 30 years in the business. Edward_ Winkleman. We’re all poorer when art is locked up. Great art needs an audience. Nick Paumgarten: The Man Who Sold the Art World. Where the Middle Class Shops. EXIT Express. El negocio de las ferias de arte. El negocio de la Feria de arte. Jornades sobre art i galerisme (16) - 18 de juny. Age of the arbitrary. Culture in U.S.: four more years. Practice Areas. Mercado del arte: noticias de artistas, galerías, coleccionistas, museos, ferias de arte. Hoyesarte.com - Primer diario de arte en lengua española. Collecting - Latest art market and collecting stories from the Financial Times.
Initiartmagazine. Re:publica 2012 - Rick Falkvinge - Working swarm-wise. Galerías de culto para grandes coleccionistas. GalleristNY. Dave Hickey Is Retiring (Sort Of) Jay-Z Picasso Baby Performance Art. Portal especializado en información, difusión y reflexión cultural. ‘Hic et Nunc’ o las paradojas de la democracia en la galería ecuatoriana Proceso Arte Contemporáneo. Center for Curatorial Studies. Diez curadores internacionales que usted debe conocer. What’s in store for the market? 'Selling the unsellable': the contemporary art market. Meta-Monumental Garage Sale. Le marché de l'art en crise ou en mutation ? VILLA WARSAW 25.08-1.09.2006. Saltz on the Death of the Gallery Show. Fiesta.