reviews 16.10.11 Alexander Mayhew
This year's Frieze Art Fair raises the question: did we only come here for decoration, for art for art’s sake?
reviews 19.06.11 Alexander Mayhew
Alexander Mayhew is in search of the real gems amongst the shiny and large art objects that dominate this year’s Art Basel.
reviews 24.01.11 Judith de Bruijn
What is going on in the art world in India? A report from India's most important art fair.
reviews 17.10.10 Alexander Mayhew
London
14/10/10 - 17/10/10
With the prospect of substantial art cuts, artists are more than ever dependent on the market. How does this translate to this years Frieze Art Fair?
reviews 21.06.10 Alexander Mayhew
Basel
Art Basel, Art Statements, Volta, Liste, Art Public, Art Unlimited, Design Miami/Basel
16/06/10 - 20/06/10
Who's hot and who's not? Alexander Mayhew reports from Art Basel 2010 and all its satellite fairs.
Design And Big Money
18/06/08 Louise Schouwenberg
Now that the market is in charge, there seems little left of the critical awareness of Dutch designers. No one still talks about the modernist ideals of affordable, good products or the postmodern investigation of the limits of design. Designers are diving en masse into producing one-of-a-kinds and small editions that find eager buyers among wealthy collectors.
02/06/08 Paco Barragán
Art fairs are more popular than ever. If in the 1990s every city wanted a biennial, today they all want an art fair with international allure. It seems just a question of time before the art fair pushes the biennial out of everybody’s mind.
Art historian and advisor Renée Steenbergen has long argued for more attention to cultural patronage in the Netherlands, although not without critical comment. Her book, De nieuwe mecenas. Cultuur en de terugkeer van het particuliere geld, has recently been released.
My Hero? Sisyphus!
Position #3
20/04/08 Georg Schöllhammer
Suddenly vanished, it seems, are the critical practices that in the 1990s still held tremendous sway over the direction of artistic discourse. The art market has swallowed up all criticism and no longer tolerates any contradiction. This makes the true critic an incorrigible idealist who continues to fight for critical opinion, even though nobody listens any more.
Privatization Fever
The economy of art in Belgrade
20/12/06 Marko Stamenkovic
Belgrade won a award last year for its favourable investment climate. The economy has been flourishing since Serbia opened itself to world trade. This wave of privatization is affecting everyone, not least the art world, which is reacting critically. Artists and artists' groups have initiated various studies into the consequences of these economic changes for the population.