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.
A tale of politically loaded Chinese treasures, angry young Taiwanese, nervous corporate sponsors, and a sudden punch in the face.
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 Taiwan, style is ideology. Traditional suggests unification with Beijing; conceptual, independence; oils, the ruling centrists.
To show art only to the peoples whose antecedents made it is to deprive the world of its variety and its collective history. The history of culture is catholic and international, and our policies on collecting should reflect that.
A profile of the artist Yayoi Kusama.
On the xenophobia of the British art establishment.
Viewing his influential artwork is like walking through psychoanalysis: full of obsession, anxiety and wisdom.