Still, Zwirner got a lesson in the American way of tactical litigation and the billable hour, and the public got a glimpse into the opaque, cliquish workings of art allocation — "a realm of self-proclaimed royalty full of 'blacklists,'grayliststs,' and astonishing chicanery," the presiding judge declared.
This is a motivating thing to unravel, since we don't often consider the inner workings of art, preferring to think of it as genius falling from the clouds.
In her account of Grayson Perry's Reith lecture about the workings of the art world, Deborah Orr (21 September) describes how the art market operates as a "formidable cartel", and advises us to recognise it as a "gargantuan practical refutation" of the idea that only free markets create economic growth.
It diagrammed the links among contemporary art, the market and the art schools producing M.F.A.'s who are burdened by debt but largely naïve about the workings of the art world.
Rembrandt fashions our human clay, and he shows the workings of his art.
Marlborough employees wrote letters explaining the workings of the art market, he said, and offered to meet with her.
[Free] There's an open studio at The Storefront on Pier 17 at noon, so you can peek into the mysterious workings of the art world.
Troemel gravitated toward artists whose work falls under the label of institutional critique, which takes as its subject the hidden workings of the art world itself.
I had gone behind the scenes, and was getting my first glimpse into the shadowy workings of an art production outfit known as Artangel.
Though Casorati provided Rama with encouragement rather than training, he did expose her to the workings of the art world and set in motion Rama's move toward her first public exhibition in 1945.
