The New York Times reports on the impacts of a globalized art market, and the near constant travel to China, Southeast Asia, Europe and elsewhere to cater to any number of growing markets.  With the massive increase in art fairs from 4 major events during the 1970’s to today’s 180 fairs worldwide, gallerists are feeling the pressure to be everywhere at once, a feeling that many feel detracts from the act of buying or selling works of art.  “Fairs are beneath the dignity of art,” says Arne Glimcher of Pace. “To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares — it is just not how you sell art.” (more…)

In anticipation of the upcoming Istanbul Biennial, opening later this fall,the New York Times has published a profile on the emerging contemporary art scene of the Turkish metropolis, exploring both the largest new galleries like SALT, and the fervent underground political arts scene of artists like Ha Za Vu Zu. (more…)

T Magazine exposes the ‘punk, haute glam and horror’ blend that is the life of artist Kembra Pfahler, “I would rather do concerts in the parking lots of 7-11’s across the country than do a show at the Louvre.”

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NY Times reviews this year’s Documenta art fair. “It is alternately inspiring — almost visionary — and insufferable, innovative and predictable, meticulous and sentimentally precious.”

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NY Times reports on the theories and paradoxes behind the value of art “Art is often valuable precisely because it isn’t a sensible way to make money.”

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