Hung, Drawn & Corporate
Andrew Solomon meets the people who advise corporations what to buy.
Andrew Solomon meets the people who advise corporations what to buy.
The difficulty of assigning value to works of folk art is enormous, because the rigorous articulation of the locus of value is only beginning.
An account of Sotheby's 1988 sale of contemporary Soviet art, adapted from "The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost."
The Moscow artistic community had no room for the passive observer; it was made up of people whose commitment was enormous.
On the xenophobia of the British art establishment.
The expenditure of vast quantities of money requires privacy or it becomes vulgar...
Both the melancholy and the exuberance of William Kentridge's work hinge on the impossibility of resolving most human problems.
Heiner Bastian surrounds himself with work by artists he knows.
The market is beginning to limit itself to the bounds of reason, and it is slowly becoming less speculative.
Shen's handscroll is intended to be savored over many days, like a leisurely sojourn in the mountains. Looking at it is like reading a long-form poem or a meditative work of fiction. Like a novel, it evinces s cogent monumentality yet is also sequential, meant to unfold slowly as life does.