Last year, a Chicago runway show organized by Gen Art attracted 750 spectators.
The role of these exhibitions is to showcase contemporary art, attract affluent tourists and stimulate local culture.
Mr. Wilson contends 21c Museum Hotels' emphasis on art attracts guests who pay room rates generally higher than those of competing hotels.
This showcase of Minimalist, Conceptual and Post-Minimalist art attracts 65,000 people a year, with an uptick in the fall.
All this art attracts high-spending cultural tourists.But while new visitors are welcome, they are yet to make much fundamental difference.
Art attracts art, and soon more came Yale's way, chiefly American painting and copies of European old masters, until the pattern-breaking arrival of ancient Assyrian reliefs from what is now Iraq, in the 1850s.
Yet in our straitened times, the money that art attracts is looked at more critically than it was during recent boom years.
(US customs tried to levy tax on the work's import, deciding it was a machine part; art attracted no such tax).
But it wasn't until 1997, when he was included in Documenta X, an art festival in Kassel, Germany, that his art attracted the attention of curators, who quickly disseminated it worldwide.
On Channel 4 in the 7pm hour, the Bill Nighy-narrated Big Art, which profiled plans to regenerate St Helens with a piece of public art, attracted an audience of 500,000 viewers, a 3% share.
