L. 94 359 inserted ": Provided, however, That it does not include exhibition of commodities by museums or similar cultural or historical organizations". after "facilitating such buying and selling".
A good chunk of the exhibition's appeal is its tangibility, an increasingly precious commodity in an era of virtual consumption.
In the middle of an intensely materialist decade, when theory-intensive "commodity art" reigned, it produced an exhibition titled "The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985".
The wedding of optically enthralling design and sensuously supple material -- activated by a hint of 80's-style Neo Geo commodity fetishism -- results in an exceptionally satisfying exhibition.
Dealers said posting prices on valuable works in an open gallery creates security concerns and disrupts an exhibition's aesthetics by transforming artworks into commodities.
Outputs may take several forms, including published reports and articles, curated exhibitions, datasets to spur further research, marketable services or commodities and strategic solutions for community needs.
But the hottest commodity Cuba had to offer came, over cigars, after the American trade exhibition here this week had shut down for the night.
For art critic Louisa Buck, the Tate exhibition represents a trend that is about "attempting to escape being a commodity.
It will not be a "garage sale" — a piece of performance art in which a garage sale is enacted, or an exhibition using conceptual instruments of value to interrogate Marx's theory of commodity fetishism.
The foundation was established by Andrew J. Hall, a British-born commodities trader who lives in Connecticut, and his wife, Christine, to present a series of exhibitions of postwar and contemporary art drawn from the Halls' vast collection.
The exhibition makes its small oval gallery reverberate with ideas about painting: as craft, thought, commodity and lifelong quest.
