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INTERVIEW - CHANGING SPACES
Vito Acconci interviewed by Freee
FEATURE
CRUNCH TIME
Jennifer Thatcher on the convergence of artistic and entrepreneurial values
Corporate management theorists often appropriate the flexible survival strategies developed by artists, but when entrepreneurs and artists begin to share the same values, what becomes of criticality?
FEATURE
PRODUCT PLACEMENT
Christopher Townsend on the link between Modernism and postmodernity in design
When avant-garde artists first proposed folding art into life through the manufacture of domestic items, did they really have limited-edition luxury goods in mind?
EDITORIAL
FAKING IT
The discovery that a painting in the Courtauld Collection, long held to be a 20th-century fake, actually dates from the 17th century has raised interesting questions about artistic value and the art market - particularly since this discovery has apparently decreased the painting's potential market value. The chequered fortunes of this work sheds an unexpected light on the contemporary art market.
ARTNOTES
Boris Johnson wants a big tower for the Olympic Park but gets more than he bargained for from artist Tomas Saraceno and his collaborators; almost all of Hélio Oiticica's work is lost in an uninsured storage fire; artists descend on Copenhagen alongside the UN's Climate Change Conference; Guggenheim Bilbao considers a satellite museum; UK galleries keep visitor numbers high during the recession but lose vital funding; and all the latest news on art world appointments, events, commissions and more. Send your news items to: artnotes@artmonthly.co.uk
OBITUARY
Nancy Spero 1926-2009
EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting
Hayward Gallery, London
Patricia Bickers
Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures
German Historical Museum, Berlin
Sarah James
Deimantas Narkevicius
BFI Southbank Gallery
Sally O'Reilly
Eva Hesse: Studiowork
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Rosie Lesso
Sophie Calle
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Maria Walsh
Jeremy Millar
National Maritime Museum, London
Andrew Hunt
Jill Magid: Authority to Remove
Tate Modern, London
Larne Abse Gogarty
Terry Smith: The Foundling
The Foundling Museum, London
Peter Suchin
The Peckham Experiment
Camberwell Space, London
Dan Smith
Let's Take Back Our Space
Focal Point Gallery, Southend
Martin Herbert
Chen Chieh-jen
Iniva, London
Colin Perry
The Long Dark
International 3, Manchester
Martin Vincent
ARTISTS' BOOKS
FAIR USE (NOTES FROM SPAM)
Sally O'Reilly on Graham Parker's exploration of spam culture
'Just as the stagecoach was vulnerable to the highwayman of 17th-century Britain and the railroad was instrumental to the conman in 19th-century United States, so the internet is now prey to spamming - the process by which an anonymous assailant tries to separate us from our money.'
BOOKS
BEAUTY
Dave Beech on Roger Scruton's latest trumpeting of conservative values
'In effect, Scruton has not written a book on beauty at all, but utilised questions around beauty to argue for a revival of the concept of virtue.''
WINTER READING
David Barrett rounds up some recent releases
'Artist Henry Bond has deepened his photographic analysis of the everyday with the extraordinary Lacan at the Scene. This publication takes a studiously analytical approach to what could have been a lighthearted thought experiment: what if French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan had become a British murder detective in the 1950s?'
REPORT
THE VIEW FROM OZ
John Kelly on art and censorship in the UK and Australia
'The case reached hysterical proportions when women and children were advised to avoid looking at the offensive painting, which one commentator described as an artistic Pearl Harbor.'
SALEROOMS
SMALLER BUT BETTER
Colin Gleadell on the autumn sales
'The London contemporary art sales held to coincide with the Frieze Art Fair brought in a total of £47.4m (including separate 20th-century Italian art sales), just above the pre-sale estimate of £45.5m. Although this was a 53% fall on last year's total for comparative sales, there were a great deal fewer lots on offer and a much higher percentage of sold against unsold lots was achieved - which all goes to demonstrate that the market has stabilised.'
ARTLAW
ARTQUEST'S ARTLAW SERVICES
Henry Lydiate on the newly reorganised Artlaw online archive
'In November 2009 Artquest's online practical information, advice and support service for visual artists and craftspeople was overhauled and improved. It included a major restructuring of the Artlaw Archive of articles published in Art Monthly from its first issue in October 1976.' |