I want to be Barbara Gladstone. In real life plz

The Fair

The lack of artists in this chapter is fitting, as artists have little to no idea what happens with the sales of art. The business side of art remains a serious mystery.

Wowwwww! I had no idea what went on with art once it left a studio. Literally no clue. This chapter revealed a lot about what happens to the works and who is really in charge of them once a sale is made. And once the works change hands, it never stops. The rotation of a collection and the constant sale and resale of works and bodies of work keep things popping. A little confused about the differences between dealer collector and speculator. Especially when dealers collect and artists become dealers and gallerists have collections. Then the dealer that started their own private collection opens up their own "private exhibition space" aka a gallery. I got a little lost in the terminology. But some good tips were given about selling work, selling yourself, and your work selling yourself and yourself selling work. maybe to the devil, but we'll talk about that later.

Once the art leaves the artists hands it's really out of the artists control as far as the cost, prestige of owner, and even meaning of the work is completely up for grabs. (I'm thinking lots of art gets grabbed and molested after it leaves the studio, a la Baldessari)

What is a speculator?

"You have to make new work to sell old work" This makes the deal less risky for investors, since they feel safer that the works already made are solidified and over. A sense of retrospect is seriously coveted within the art world. Once a moment has passed, collectors dealers historians and critics take years pouring over the details. It makes it hard to keep up with contemporary art. For me at least it is difficult when the modern art section is filled with dead artists.

"My art is almost unsellable." Is that because it doesn't cater to the market, and if it doesn't cater to the market does that mean it doesn't cater to viewers? Is it really a good thing to be unsellable?

"The amount of art in the world is a bit depressing."
agreed.

I think that when referring to Blum and Poe about the "too much dude", it might have been a comment about the lack of feminine perspective. The two seemed to more attribute this very characteristic to their success. Maybe I'm just being sensitive, but Thornton brought it up not me.

Hopefully now that I know what goes on in the art market I won't start catering to it in my creations. The safety of knowing that as long as I am ignorant to the business side of art then it will never be able to contaminate my work, leaves me feeling blissfully ignorant.