Quoted: Art critic Jerry Saltz and art dealer Jeffrey Deitch came to the Wharton School Wednesday to talk about the art biz. The talk was a collaboration between the Institute of Contemporary Art and Wharton.

mcb first gave props but then proceeded to pwn peter halley, using arnheim on both counts (woooo~). so it looks like halley, who pwned the minimalists in the 80s by quoting baudrillard, might have actually left out some details... oops!

Quoted: In recent years, the ubiquity of the market has become an ubiquitous theme. In May, ARTnews magazine, not exactly a bellwether, featured the cover story, "Are You Looking at Prices or Art?" In these pages, Charlie Finch, Donald Kuspit and Jerry Saltz have all taken time out to address the issue, in their own distinctive ways -- and with the recent market turmoil, it’s even more important to understand the effects that money has had on art of late.

Quoted: At any given moment, the artworld’s core members are attracted to particular artists for subjective reasons - ranging from aesthetics and current affairs to pop culture and the society’s broader anxieties/obsessions. But we naturally want to feel like our attractions to those artists are grounded in art history; so we cast backwards for new “pivotal” figures in the past that position our current stars as part of a logical and well-grounded historical continuum, not the product of a more gossamer zeitgeist.

saw this piece at the mca. it was one of my favorite piece at their contemporary photography exhibition... which can be best described as the art history flash cards show. very educational, but as a curated piece not particularly engaging.

Quoted: Rebecca Jones unveils the rich history of appropriation, from collage to the Internet, citing from a variety of sources to engage in cogent connections that reveal the ongoing theoretical "substance" in the "style."

Quoted: Every media work carries its own potential for interference, and over the years, numerous curatorial strategies have been developed to neutralize them—from using headphones and sit-down computer kiosks to dividing galleries into small screening rooms—some of which are more distracting than the works themselves. But curators and dealers are discovering that rather than attempting to reduce “glare” and other installation challenges, some of the most successful exhibitions take advantage of media work’s idiosyncrasies, using them to craft the overall experience of the exhibition.

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Quoted: Arts critic Terry Teachout talks to contentions about his latest piece in Commentary and much more.

on americanism in art, blogging and postmodern culture, john marin, and more... v. interesting even tho it's pretty much 10 minutes of this dood talking. =P

Quoted: Accused of being the Gordon Gekko of the art world, Saatchi is actually doing more than most to democratise it.

saatchi has been known to make and break artists. not sure how i feel about him yet, but props to the free museum idea!