"The art world has grown so big, so broad and so busy, and the art fair sector is almost like a subsidiary — it requires enormous effort by an enormous number of people," said Timothy Blum, an owner of the Blum & Poe gallery in Los Angeles, one of several participants who offered glimpses behind the scenes of Art Basel Miami Beach.
A review of some rejection letters with names redacted, obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, provides something of a tinted view of the neighborhood's art scene, and of art criticism.
She had always put the guests' indifference to her down to their bohemian lifestyle: "In that febrile scene, works of art excused misconduct," she writes.
It's a scene of consummate art; elegant and precisely written.
"I started to get a sense of the Downtown scene, of different art coming into this moment, of an interesting coalition of artists, musicians, choreographers and DJs.
You can see why artists come here and why, when the weather is fine, State Road 76 is the scene of an art collectors' crawl, with signs that read "Metal Sculptor," "Woodcarver" and "Artist at Work" dotting the landscape.
In this magical scene the transcendence of art itself is represented together with the human work (the men in shirtsleeves) that goes into its creation.
For ten years, the documentary series Art21, which airs on PBS, has been going behind the scenes of contemporary art, using broad themes as curatorial filters to create unexpected groupings of artists.
By The New Yorker December 7, 2011 For ten years, the documentary series Art21, which airs on PBS, has been going behind the scenes of contemporary art, using broad themes as curatorial filters to create unexpected groupings of artists.
The interior of 101 Spring Street, which Judd had kept as a New York base, became unexpectedly visible when he was strapped for cash in the mid-1980s and rented it to the producers of the 1986 movie "9› Weeks" for some scenes of the art gallery where Kim Basinger's character worked.
