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Showing posts with label Art Biz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art Biz. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
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Sunday, May 7, 2017
ART BIZ | Ashawagh Hall 2018 Summer Space... Gone!
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| Ashawagh Hall is an art gallery and village center. Photo by JT Marlin 2016. |
The Springs School moved to larger quarters (!) and Ashawagh Hall now doubles as an art gallery and a village hall. I have frequently reviewed community events there, such as the award to the late Herb Field last year.
I have also reviewed art shows at Ashawagh Hall, with an economic perspective, for example:
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Eternal Springs Hope (2016).
Hot Dots and Collage Credit (2016).
Meckseper and Troemel (2014).
Ten Artworks Sold (2014).
Vito DeVito, East Hampton (2013).
Over the years I have figured out the system for allocating space in the gallery, which is that members of the Springs Improvement Society on May 15 call in to reserve space at the gallery for the following year at 8:00 a.m., and everyone else calls in at 10 a.m. The instructions for 2017 are still shown on the Ashawagh Hall website, although the space that would be allocated on May 15, 2017 is for 2018.
That system gives a little edge to long-term residents, members of the Society, and people who watch the calendar and the clock. A little quirky, but it seemed fair enough.
That system gives a little edge to long-term residents, members of the Society, and people who watch the calendar and the clock. A little quirky, but it seemed fair enough.
As I checked out this year's timing, I find that this year it has changed. Artists calling on May 15 will discover that all the 2018 summertime space was already allocated. It was done during the winter. A special discount was reportedly emailed (to all members? to a list of artists?) in February.
Sorry to be the bearer of this bad news if you were planning on something in 2018. If you think the change in the system is capricious, comment below or send me an email.
Sorry to be the bearer of this bad news if you were planning on something in 2018. If you think the change in the system is capricious, comment below or send me an email.
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Monday, May 1, 2017
ART BIZ | Fantastic Exhibit at One Art Space
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| Multiple Points of View, One Inspiration — Ernst Fuchs. All photos by JT Marlin. |
This gallery is a fine white cube — actually more of a white rectangular brick — half a block west of Broadway and City Hall Park. Phone 646-559-0535.
In keeping with the theme of this blog, the Art Biz, I can report that the highest price for a painting in this Exhibition is $25,000 (#2 by Isaac Abrams) and the lowest is $280 (#27 by Marnie Pitts), a range of nearly 100 to 1.
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| Artists Exhibiting, One Art Space, NYC. They are members of the Society for Art of Imagination. |
The 51 listed paintings and 48 listed artists came from all over the world — Austria, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Dom. Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Peru. U.S. painters came from the New York area and Ohio.
They are all members of the Society for Art of Imagination, which was founded by followers of Austrian artist Ernst Fuchs.
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| Brigid Marlin in front of her painting, #21B. |
Fuchs, which is German for Fox, is pronounced like "Looks" with an "F" (or listen to this).
Fuchs viewed himself as the reincarnation of the great German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528).
The exhibition is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am to 5 pm, until Saturday, May 13.
The Society for Art of Imagination is the successor group to Ernst Fuchs' own society, the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, which he co-founded in the 1940s.
If I may simplify, Fuchs and his colleagues in Vienna sought to explore spiritual fantasy using the hard-won schools of early Renaissance painters and engravers.
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| Miguel Tio, Treasurer of the American Society and painter (see his "Heartbeats", #43, the purple lady behind him). |
The Vienna School expired with the death of Prof. Fuchs himself in November 1915.
He became President of the Society of Art of Imagination before he died.
He called Brigid Marlin, who founded the Society, "my best student".
One Art Space is curated by Diego Ponce, who can be reached by email at curator@oneartspace.com. A catalog of the art show is available via email.
The exhibition was co-curated by France Garrido, Olga Spiegel and Miguel Tio, who are leaders in the American Society for Art of Imagination.
One of the visitors to the exhibition came up from Washington, D.C. She prepared the following video clip of her visit: https://quik.gopro.com/v/qYb7EXCmBR/.
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Sunday, March 19, 2017
ART BIZ | Imagine! NYC Apr 29-May 13, 2017
The Opening at One Art Space, 23 Warren Street, is 6 to 9 pm on Saturday,
April 29.
Artists I know who are exhibiting include: France Garrido, Laurie Lipton, Brigid Marlin, Olga Spiegel and Miguel Tio.
The show is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11:30 to 5 pm, until May 13.
The gallery, 23 Warren St., is just a half-block west of Broadway by City Hall Park. Chambers Street is a good stop to get off at on the subway.
Related post: Opening Night, April 29
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016
BLOG VIEWS | Greetings–300K–Top Posts
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| Warm wishes from your blogger. |
This blog passed 300K views while we weren't looking.
It is now up above 304,000 views. Thank you for reading.
The top 10 (most-viewed) posts in the last month are shown below. Posts on President-Elect Trump (#1) and Art Biz (#2) begin and end (#9 and #10) the list.
My Foreword to The Borrowed House (#7) was written in July. It has become more relevant since then...
My Foreword to The Borrowed House (#7) was written in July. It has become more relevant since then...
TOP POSTS IN NOV-DEC 2016
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| 1 TRUMP | Mr. T Goes to Washington (Updated Nov. 11,... Nov 10, 2016 |
| 2 ART BIZ | The Economics of the Art Auction Market Nov 25, 2016 |
| 3 DODD-FRANK | Maloney Asks Five Agencies for Data Aug 30, 2016 |
| 4 GUTENBERG | Aug. 24–Bible First Published Aug 24, 2016 |
| 5 SCAMS | The IRS Is NOT Calling You! Aug 25, 2016 |
| 6 SENIORS | Most Livable Cities Aug 8, 2016 |
| 7 WW2 | Foreword to "The Borrowed House," by Hilda v... Dec 4, 2016 |
| 8 ED BIZ | Manager-Sharing, Long Island, N.Y. Jul 31, 2016 |
| 9 TRUMP | Why Run as GOP? Jul 25, 2016 |
| 10 ART BIZ | Some Forgers Are Good Nov 1, 2016 |
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016
ART BIZ | Some Forgers Are Good
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| "Portrait of a Man," misattributed to Frans Hals. A fake. |
It was sold as a discovered portrait by Frans Hals. Sotheby's has now declared the painting to be a fake.
My mother, Hilda van Stockum, was impressed with successful forgers. She used to tell us with relish how some great forgeries were accepted for years as genuine by the art experts, the nomenklatura of the art world.
She asked out loud why their obvious talents weren't directed toward the traditional route of artists, which is to make their name by painting in their own style.
And then she answered her own question by noting that a good forgery can command immediate money in the art marketplace, whereas even one of the greatest painters who ever lived, Vincent van Gogh, took years to win consensus on his greatness, although as I have noted before, his younger brother Theo clearly knew all along that Vincent's work was valuable.
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| Hitler and Göring |
She based it on news stories about the competition between Hitler and Göring over acquisition of art treasures.
When Janna "realized that you could like and dislike someone at the same time," referring to Erich Stolz getting rich stealing art from Hitler and selling it to Göring, that was my mother's voice I heard.
It's good to hear her voice today, All Saints' Day, on the tenth anniversary of her death.
Related Posts: Vincent van Gogh P&L . The Borrowed House
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Saturday, September 24, 2016
ART BIZ | Emerging Art Cheaper
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| Action at Phillips Auction House, London. |
Recent sales indicate the market for emerging art is off from its peak two years ago.
Prices for some artists are down nearly 90 percent.
Phillips Auction House's “New Now” sale brought in $2.8 million, with a sell-through rate of 74 percent. The total is a decrease from the $4.4 million brought in by February’s “New Now” sale, but the sell-through rate marks a 23 percent increase.
Prices for artists were down:
- Hugh Scott-Douglas and Christian Rosa had in the 2014 speculative market brought prices above $100,000 and were down to the $20,000-$30,000 range.
- A Lucie Stahl painting, valued at $6,000, went for $563.
This supports evidence from other auction data that some contemporary art prices rose rapidly in recent years relatively to Impressionist and other classical art and were due for a correction.Sources: Bloomberg.com, ARTNews, and artsy.com.
Other ART BIZ stories:
- Alec Baldwin Claims Art Sale Switch (Updated Aug. 20 ... (Was Baldwin betrayed by Bleckner and/or Boone?)
- 100 Priciest Art Sales at Auction
- Hot Dots and Collage Credit
- Vincent van Gogh's P&L
- Aug. 11–Pollock Died 60 Years Ago
- Brigid Marlin in NYC
- Some contemporary art is overpriced. | London Phillips ...
- "Hope", Museum of Visionary Art - Yanni ...
- Eternal Springs Hope
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Thursday, August 18, 2016
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| GLASS-STEAGALL | Bipartisan Support to Bring It Ba... Jul 27, 2016. |
| ART BIZ | 100 Priciest Art Sales at Auction Aug 14, 2016. |
| ED BIZ | Manager-Sharing, Long Island, N.Y. Jul 31, 2016. |
| WW2 | BOISSEVAIN Links (Updated July 23, 2016) Jan 26, 2015, 4 comments |
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Friday, June 10, 2016
BLOG VIEWS | 260K – Top Posts
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During the past month, the following 20 posts on CityEconomist.blogspot.com were the most-read. One, on the NAACP, dates back to 2009. Two others, about van Gogh and the Dutch Resistance, were posted more than a year ago.
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Sunday, November 8, 2015
CITYECONOMIST | 210K Pageviews
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Thursday, September 25, 2014
BLOG READS | 100K Pageviews, Sept. 25, 2014–Top Posts Since 2008
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