scholarly journals Inside and Outside the Market for Contemporary Art in Brazil, through the Experience of Artists and Gallerists

Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Amanda Brandellero
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Art World ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Market Expansion ◽  
Market Consolidation ◽  
Global Art ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
World Development

In this paper, I seek to extend our understanding of global art markets by focusing on the relationships between different art world agents and their perceived responsibilities and roles in a market considered locally ‘incipient’ and emergent on the global scene. For this purpose, I draw on over 50 interviews with art gallerists, independent art spaces and visual artists represented by them, living in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the two largest clusters of the contemporary art market in Brazil, at a time of market expansion and internationalisation. In an incipient market, two main functions are considered important: Developing the commercial circuit and opening up the market, and; enhancing the value of art in society. Such functions occur against the backdrop of a large and complex country, where the ‘eixo’ (axis) of the main cities offers greater opportunities for visibility and valorization. The findings help to elucidate the perceptions of responsibility and roles in a context of market development, as well as the emerging boundaries between culture and the market. Moreover, the paper explores the emerging dynamics and strategies of art world development as they are enacted, offering insights into how art market actors perceive their roles and responsibilities, as well as the strategies available to them to support market consolidation.

scholarly journals Art journalism and the impact of ‘globalisation’: New fugal modalities of storytelling in Austral-Asian writing

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-161
Author(s):  
Ruth Skilbeck
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Art World ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Art Writing ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Global Art

The writing of art journalism has played a key yet little acknowledged role in the ongoing expansion of the international contemporary art world, and the multi-billion dollar global art economy. This article discusses some contradictory impacts of globalisation on art journalism—from extremes of sensationalist record-breaking art market reporting in the global mass media to the emergence of innovative modalities of story-telling in Australian independent journalistic art writing.  This article discusses some contradictory impacts of gobalisation on art journalism— from extremes of sensationalist record-breaking art market reporting in the global mass media to the emergence of innovative modalities of story-telling in Australian independent art writing. 

The Factors of Market Success and Failure of Contemporary Artists from ASEAN countries | ปัจจัยทางการตลาด ที่ทำาให้ศิลปินร่วมสมัยจากประเทศอาเซียนประสบ ความสำาเร็จ หรือ ล้มเหลว

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rémy Jarry ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Art World ◽  
Asean Countries ◽  
Global Art ◽  
Do So ◽  
Contemporary Artists

The market of contemporary art from Southeast Asia hasn’t been explored in-depth, despite its rise in sales and notoriety over the last two decades at national and international levels. Our aim is to identify the factors of success and failure of contemporary artists from ASEAN countries in the global art market. To do so, we map the trajectories of those artists and evaluate the role of the other stakeholders of the art world. Our methodology relies on a multidisciplinary approach, balancing quantitative and qualitative data. The period of study focuses on the art market data since 2000.

Who (or What) is an AI Artist?

Leonardo ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Kieran Browne
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art History ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Art World ◽  
Significant Disagreement ◽  
History And Theory

Abstract The mainstream contemporary art world is suddenly showing interest in “AI art”. While this has enlivened the practice, there remains significant disagreement over who or what actually deserves to be called an “AI artist”. This article examines several claimants to the term and grounds these in art history and theory. It addresses the controversial elevation of some artists over others and accounts for these choices, arguing that the art market alienates AI artists from their work. Finally, it proposes that AI art's interactions with art institutions have not promoted new creative possibilities but have instead reinforced conservative forms and aesthetics.

scholarly journals Materialising Markets: The Agency of Auctions in Emergent Art Genres in the Global South

Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Anita Archer
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Global South ◽  
Chinese Contemporary Art ◽  
Market Expansion ◽  
Auction Houses ◽  
Art Auction

For the last two decades, the international auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s have been at the forefront of global art market expansion. Their world-wide footprints have enabled auction house specialists to engage with emerging artists and aspiring collectors, most notably in the developing economies of the Global South. By establishing their sales infrastructure in new locales ahead of the traditional mechanisms of primary market commercial galleries, the international auction houses have played a foundational role in the notional construction of new genres of art. However, branding alone is not sufficient to establish these new markets; the auction houses require a network of willing supporters to facilitate and drive marketplace supply and demand, be that trans-locational art market intermediaries, local governments, and/or regional auction businesses. This paper examines emerging art auction markets in three Global South case studies. It elucidates the strategic mechanisms and networks of international and regional art auction houses in the development of specific genres of contemporary art: Hong Kong and ‘Chinese contemporary art’, Singapore and ‘Southeast Asian art’, and Australia and ‘Aboriginal art’. Through examination and comparison of these three markets, this paper draws on research conducted over the past decade to reveal an integral role played by art auctions in the expansion of broader contemporary art world infrastructure in the Global South.

Art Markets and Auctions

Art History ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noah Horowitz
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Cultural Economics ◽  
Art World ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Market Structures ◽  
Market Practices ◽  
Economic Dilemma

This article surveys the growing body of literature covering the international art market. Though discussions about collecting and patronage are as old as the market itself, the academic field of study is relatively new and continues to expand rapidly. Gerald Reitlinger’s Economics of Taste remains the foundational historical survey of its kind, and Baumol and Bowen’s Performing Arts: The Economic Dilemma, which looks at the economics of the performing arts, is credited with catalyzing the field of cultural economics (ultimately leading to the founding of The Journal of Cultural Economics in 1977). This has led, in subsequent years, to detailed inquiry into historical market structures and public policy issues. More recently, as the art world has spread globally and sales of modern and contemporary art have reached unprecedented heights, there has been a flood of writing on the investment value of art and on new types of collectors and market practices. The Internet, meanwhile, has enabled scholars and market professionals alike to actively mine the trade for up-to-the-minute data and analytics. This article aims to ground this sprawling debate and begins with an introduction to the literature on art market history and continues with sections on the following: how the market works, investment issues, critical theory, current market issues; plus there is an overview of analytical and research tools. This article should speak to scholars across a variety of disciplines, from art historians, critics, and journalists to economists and sociologists. Certainly one goal of future art market studies is to bridge this gap by providing intelligent economic analysis of the global trade that is equally in tune with the sensibilities of the diverse actors and positions that constitute it.

scholarly journals REDRESSING DIGITAL ORIENTALISM: VIETNAMESE CULTURAL PROFESSIONALS’ DIGITAL WORK DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (43) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Duester ◽  
Michal Teague
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Art World ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Digital Ethnography ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Digital Work ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
Global Art

The current study investigates how digital technologies can potentially be used to re-orientate the global narrative on Vietnam, overcome an imbalance in representation and help redress digital orientalism. Global digital technologies allow Vietnamese cultural professionals to reach beyond the borders of their nation and to become part of the global art world. With this,they can participate in the production, dissemination, and circulation of discourses on art and culture globally. In doing so, they can redress digital orientalism by contemporizing narratives on Vietnam. However, there is an underlying tension, as the very means by which their voicesare heard is achieved by using global (western) technologies, tools and platforms. The research uses a digital ethnography of the Facebook pages of 7 contemporary art spaces in Hanoi and 20 semi-structured interviews with art and cultural professionals in Hanoi. The interviews were carried out during the Covid-19 Pandemic and addressed its impact and use of digital technology in their work during this time.

The Smart Art Market Products from the Contemporary Art World

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pang-Soong LIN ◽  
Jia FU
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Art World ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Market Product ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Museum Of Contemporary Art ◽  
Fair Access

The power of the Smart Art Market product has become the vehicles between art and mass consumption of communication. Furthermore, it has across national boundaries and cultural regions that took part in the consumption and public opinion actively. In this trend, typical exhibitions is bridging to an economic model, and Smart Art Market presents a new logic of trade and valuation, ensuring fair access, distribution and acquisition for widely types of art collector. Indeed, this contemporary art exhibition attracts large audiences all the time, such crowed visitors entering the art zone places as the Museum of contemporary art, cultural and creative industrial park, a commercial gallery to visit and establish tourist consume. It breaks the last form of art. On the other hand, Smart Art Market product expand the value systems from the contemporary art world. Within the exhibition program, symbolic meaning from the original work has been discussed and explored.

The booming global market of contemporary art

Focaal ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (69) ◽  
pp. 84-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Fillitz
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
Financial Crises ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Net Worth ◽  
High Flexibility ◽  
Global Art

The present economic and financial crises do not seem to particularly influence the global art market of contemporary art. In an attempt to understand this apparent opposition, I adopt a macro perspective, combining my own research ventures in Dakar and Vienna with general art market studies. I argue that this market is a special representation of millennial capitalism (Comaroff and Comaroff 2001). The global art market puts in place an organization of diversity that allows a high flexibility in including specific centers and marginalizing others, as well as a special focus on a globally acting group of “ultra high net worth” individuals. Striking features are the concentration of capital flows to a few major centers, the constitution of complex, transnational networks, the dominant logics for each market field (gambling, glamour, moral economy), and the diversification of the commodity character of the work of art.

scholarly journals Glocalization: An Analytical Path Towards More Inclusive Contemporary Art?

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Lina Abazine
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art World ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
Art Worlds ◽  
The University ◽  
Global Art

A student essay for the Special Student Issue of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology accompanying the art exhibition 'Artist's Waste, Wasted Artists', which opened in Vienna on the 19th of September 2017 and was curated by the students of social anthropology at the University of Vienna. This essay deals critically with the notion of the 'global art world', showing that there may instead be numerous self-centred and ethnocentric art worlds, while also critically engaging with inequalities that persist within and across these art worlds and markets. In this respect it also deals with the work of the Iranian artist Aria Vooria, based in Vienna, and his struggle to escape streotypizations across different art worlds.

scholarly journals La educación artística como configuración de lo contemporáneo en el arte

2018 ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Daniel Montero
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art Criticism ◽  
Art World ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
Art Research ◽  
Global Art ◽  
Art Schools ◽  
Arte Contemporáneo

Resumen: El siguiente texto es una reflexión personal que parte de mi experiencia profesional como investigador en historia y crítica de arte, así como de mi labor docente en escuelas de formación artística en niveles de licenciatura y posgrado y que permite pensar en cómo es que tanto la teoría, la historia y las prácticas del arte coinciden necesariamente. Se argumenta, en general, que la noción de arte contemporáneo, más que un estilo o una moda, es un espacio de experimentación que puede ser aprovechado en las escuelas de arte como un lugar para pensar en cómo es que se percibe la realidad inmediata y cómo es que se pueden singularizar ciertas experiencias de una manera única, de forma muy diferente a cualquier otra disciplina. En ese sentido, y al contrario de lo que se podría esperar por las reglamentaciones y tradiciones que lo predeterminan, el espacio académico se convierte a su vez en un lugar en que la práctica del arte puede escapar y empezar a dialogar de otra forma con la institucionalidad del mundo del arte global y de ciertas maneras de hacer que se han convertido en códigos fácilmente comprensibles. Así, la noción de arte contemporáneo incorporada a la escuela podría incluso cuestionar las mismas bases del conocimiento artístico permitiendo cierta movilidad de los sujetos, así como de las prácticas. Palabras clave: Investigación artística, Arte contemporáneo, Arte crítico, Escuela de arte, Formación artística.   Abstract: The following text is a personal reflection from my professional experience as a researcher in arte history and art criticism, as well as from my teaching work in art schools at undergraduate and graduate levels. That allows me to think about how the art theory, art history and practice of art necessarily coincide. It is argued, in general, that the notion of contemporary art, rather than a style or a fad, is a space for experimentation that can be used in art schools as a place to think about how it is perceived the immediate reality and how it is that you can single out certain experiences in a unique way, very differently from any other discipline or practice. In that sense, and contrary to what could be expected by the regulations and traditions that predetermine it, the academic space becomes a place where the practice of art can escape the institutionality of the global art world and of certain ways of doing that have become easily understandable codes. Thus, the notion of contemporary art incorporated into the school could even question the very foundations of artistic knowledge allowing certain mobility of the subjects, as well as of the practices. Keywords: Art research, Contemporary art, Critical art, School of art, Artistic education.   http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/eari.9.11492

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