When loving art becomes an obsession: at a gallery in New York City, a gallerina mischievously walks off with a painting she fell in love with. This gallery girl needs more than chocolate to calm down.
An evil gallerist reminds us how art has sadly always been used as an ambitious symbol of power. This gallery girl from Milan has some confessions to make.
New York’s annual Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art may serve to celebrate the Costume Institute’s newest exhibitions but, from experience, it is also an event of debauchery! I feel like the Met Gala’s punk theme was dreamed up by a drunk intern who knew she was getting fired anyway so why not?
We’ve all been rejected before. But if you’re an artist who’s been rejected by a gallery, maybe not the most qualified individual was calling the shots. This NYC gallery girl has some confessions to make. It’s like grading a work of art: who really knows what is good or bad these days?
Just came back from the strangest summer job – let’s just say it wasn’t your average internship. It’s a true story with a juicy, behind-the-scenes look at the world’s most notorious museum: The Louvre.
Why the Avant-Garde Should Cheer Up “The contemporary art world is flourishing. Despite all the grumbling—and we’ll get to that in a moment—does anyone doubt that we are flooded with artists, overwhelmed by art shows, and swamped by art fairs and biennials?”
Only the rich, jet-setting, diamond-eating socialites collect art, right? WRONG. So maybe you don’t own a Yacht with a Picasso above the toilet, but guess what: even YOU can be an art collector.
A friend has been interning at a gallery for over a year with the promise of a paid job. She was asked recently to drive from Berlin to Bavaria to drop off a work. That’s where all the fun begins—or not.
What is the downside of selling artwork: A fist fight in an art fair? Going to bed with a married millionaire? This gallery girl has some confessions to make. Every gallery I’ve ever worked for has always been careful with whom they make business with. Whenever some anonymous or obscure rich person e-mails us regarding the fresh young talent […]
How many art collectors actually know what they are buying? What’s the best way to smuggle artwork across the Atlantic? This gallery girl has some confessions to make.
Hey art non-experts, this one’s for you. Being in Berlin, the contemporary art capital of Europe, this crash course on how to look at art is a must!
Out of place at fancy galleries? More used to drinking Sternberg than Dom Pérignon? Then read BAPS’ top tips for becoming a social climber in Berlin’s art world. Or at Art Basel Miami Beach …
Canadian name-brand art reporter, Sarah Thornton, has pulled a Greg Smith, today, penning a screed for TAR Magazine entitled “Top 10 reasons NOT to write about the art market.” In it, the “Seven Days in the Art World” author concludes that the subject is too corrupt to report on and therefore she will shift away from this kind […]
David Hockney recently touched off a controversywith a poster advertising his new exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts that read: “All the works here were made by the artist himself, personally.” When the BBC journalist Andrew Marr asked Hockney if the statement was a dig at Damien Hirst, who employs up to 100 craftsmen to […]
The titles of Damien Hirst‘s spot paintings give them a slightly menacing, as well as a dangerously attractive, air: Cocaine Hydrochloride, Morphine Sulphate, Bovine Albumin, Butulinium Toxin A. Their relentless, insistent brightness feels almost bad for you. No wonder one group of paintings is called Controlled Substances. Yet they have no discernable secrets, and that’s part of the deal. […]
Thanks to the Gagosian art empire, a ludicrous number of paintings by Damien Hirst are on display right now: 331 of Mr. Hirst’s implacably cheerful “spot” abstractions spread among Gagosian’s 11 galleries in 8 cities on 3 continents. The good news, of course, is that they’re not all in one place. And none involve dead animals, maggots, encrusted diamonds […]
In many ways the art world is a latecomer to the kinds of copyright tensions that have already played out in fields like music and movies, where extensive systems of policing, permission and licensing have evolved. But art lawyers say that legal challenges are now coming at a faster pace, perhaps in part because the […]