< 100 most powerful people in art
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- cre2done0
Paul McCarthy is a talentless hack. If there is one living artist I really dislike, it's him.
- version30
agreed, he's nothing more than a clown with too many provisions
balloon art? seriously?
- acescence0
we had to cart some giveaway stuff to the biennale so i went to the hardware store and bought a bunch of wheelbarrows. strange, but it's all they had. so we're set up on the path to the entrance and i pile up the wheelbarrows and convince these people that the city had commissioned me to do the piece and suddenly i have all these critics taking photos of them and commenting on it. then i told them they'd all been had ha
- paraselene0
it's actually a list of the 100 most influential people in the contemporary art world. the artists listed there are not there because they are artists, but because of their collections and the value of the works that they own (often produced by them).
google comes in this year, according to art review, mainly because of the acquisition of flikr, which they feel to be an up-and-coming venue for the global propagation of understanding of contemporary art.
i'm thinking it was cos they knew it would get attention.
anyway, the day they published the list, i posted a thread about it. there's a more viable link in there.
- Crouwel0
funny this is posted.
was at a lecture yesterday, and the list was mentioned.
- Crouwel0
ha, after reading some of the comments it seems people are really not getting this.
it's about collectors, curators, artists and all the people that influence the world of art together...
- mr_snuggles0
I wonder how much it cost to get on that list...
- acescence0
i was shooting an interview with the woman from UBS (#49), and it's amazing how cold and divorced of emotion one can be while discussing works of art. she is given a budget and travels the world buying art as an investment portfolio. her performance is judged by how well that portfolio appreciates. the content of the works is irrelevant. this is obviously no surprise, every major financial entity has a collection of sorts, it's just interesting, and depressing, to hear of its pure commodification firsthand.