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Share Market Share: “Help navigating a murky world”
Two recent events in Manchester square up to a debate that’s not going away – the relationship between artists and money. Bob Dickinson reports.
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Open Cube: closed world?
As White Cube’s Open Cube show opens to the public, we ask whether an exhibition where all but one of the artists lives and works in London is really ‘an international group show’?
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100 artists exhibit at The Other Art Fair
London’s leading artist-led fair springs into step.
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Christie’s closes Haunch of Venison
Christie’s International has announced that it is to close its Haunch of Venison galleries in London and New York to focus on the secondary art market.
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Mermaid & Monster is dead. Long Live Mermaid & Monster
The Cardiff-based contemporary art agency has announced that it will no longer be representing artists, citing the shrinking market for smaller, regional galleries as a factor.
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London’s Poppy Sebire gallery to close
The doors will close at Southwark-based commercial gallery Poppy Sebire at the end of January 2013.
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Turner Prize winners donate work to pop-up art shop
Artist-led organisation Studio Voltaire opens an ambitious fundraising venture in the heart of London’s Mayfair, with contributions from Jeremy Deller, Mark Leckey, Linder, Cory Arcangel and many more.
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The Manchester Contemporary
Launched in 2009, The Manchester Contemporary is an art fair that looks to encourage and develop a market for critically engaged contemporary art in North West England. We talk to Paulette Terry Brien of The International 3 who, alongside Laurence Lane, has been Curatorial Coordinator for the last three editions of the fair.
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Is it time to challenge the art elite?
What do the recent Frieze Art Fair acquisitions by Tate, funded by philanthropic contemporary art fund Outset, tell us about the art market, the place of artists within it and the influence these organisations wield? A painter and non-Frieze exhibitor writes.
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Artists and the art market
As Frieze Art Fair opens this week, a-n’s Director asks if we need to think about how art market growth could aid artists’ careers.
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Challenges and obstacles
“These are dangerous times for people and for our world of arts values … Uncertainty can cause us to be safe, edit complexity, be secretive, conservative” says Susan Jones in her provocation ‘Where is the place for art?’
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Start your Chinese collection
With bids starting at just £200, the UK’s first Chinese contemporary art auction aims to be accessible both to established collectors and those looking to start a collection.
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Re:Thinking Trade
During its time as a hardware store, Rapid was proud to be the only independent to take up the entire street.
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Graham Crowley on the state of play for contemporary painting
Graham Crowley is one of the most distinguished living painters in the UK today. As the deadline closes on entry to the John Moores 2010 competition, Kate Brundrett asked him for his views on the competition’s significance and for his ‘take’ on the state of contemporary art practice.
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Turning Point revisited
Arts Council England’s ten-year visual arts plan turned a corner in April when a-n became aware of a new pilot scheme designed to create ‘a national network for a stronger visual arts’.
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Markets for art in the UK
The relationship between artists and money has always been one of contradictions and idiosyncrasies. Fine art higher education in the UK concentrates mainly on the artist’s intellectual pursuit, somewhat disconnected from any idea of financial independence.
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London fair focus
The October art fair frenzy kicks off with Art London 2-6 October at Royal Hospital Chelsea, celebrating its tenth anniversary by presenting eighty galleries, 1,000 artists and five continents.
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Trade off: Markets for art in the UK
Emilia Telese’s opening essay offers analysis of the markets for art in the UK highlighting the ‘contradictions and idiosyncrasies’ of the relationship between artists and money,
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Trade off: Markets for art in the UK
Trade off draws on intelligence gathered at the NAN Roadshow events focused on themes around the art market. Emilia Telese’s opening essay offers analysis of the markets for art in the UK and introduces the set of newly commissioned articles […]
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Commodification / co-modification
Martine Rouleau wonders what or who is susceptible to change the market. Can artists adapt it to their own expectations and should the demands of the market influence artists’ work?
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Market gardening: Artists’ responses to the art market
Charlie Fox’s critical response to the different positions taken up by dealers and curators vs non-object based artists within the art market.
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Our survey says
Ayling & Conroy survey the motives and trends that effect how UK commercial galleries select artists to exhibit.
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Rare diamonds: A beginners’ guide to the art market
Guyan Porter talks about the socio-economic dynamics of art markets and deconstructs notions of the art market in the UK.
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Jobbing artists and the UK markets
Ken Pratt gives an overview of the international art market from a curator’s point of view.
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Amy Azelda Cooper
Jo Wilson explores the work of ceramicist and sculptor Amy Cooper, in particular her successful balance between business and creativity.