Re: Collectors, artists and lawyers. Fear of litigation is hobbling the art market

2012-11-24 Thread richard joly
At 11:10 2012-11-24 -0600, you wrote: >Fabulous article. > >The art market (now based on auctions and mega-fairs much more than >galleries) is said to be the world's largest totally unregulated market. here is another great article, examining the market: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articl

Re: Collectors, artists and lawyers. Fear of litigation is hobbling the art market

2012-11-24 Thread Brian Holmes
Fabulous article. The art market (now based on auctions and mega-fairs much more than galleries) is said to be the world's largest totally unregulated market. But I think narcotics have been conveniently left out of that calculation! Typically there is a large boom in the art market after sto

no need for Mute

2012-11-24 Thread t byfield
Mute magazine has been running a crowd-funding campaign for the past several weeks, and happily they've met their goal. Which means there's no *need* to send an appeal to nettime. Indeed, if anything, they should be acknowledged for their principled restraint in that regard. Most would-be crowd-fu