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Skate’s Art Investment Handbook

5 Feb

Sergey Skaterschikov has released the new edition of Skate’s Art Investment Handbook, The Comprehensive Guide to Investing in the Global Art and Art Services Market.

2008 was a record year for art sales. Inflated prices set the bar for record prices and sales. The new edition of Skate’s Art Investment Handbook addresses market behaviours of the auction houses, art, and artists. Especially relating the pre-boom period up until the height of the market in 2008, and the retrospective recovery period we have seen in the last year.

It is understood that art should not be bought as a trading stock, and the return on investment is not as clear as with the stock market.
Skate’s must have guide, outlines all the foundational elements of the financial world as it relates to the art market ensuring that any collector can maximize the potential of a developing collection.

Sergey Skaterschikov will be speaking at New York Armory Show on Friday March 5

From Outside In: The Socioeconomics of Contemporary Art

Critics, journalists and art market analysts discuss their individual approaches to decoding the exceptional social and economic landscape of the art world. What are the challenges involved in reporting on an unregulated market? What kinds of economic indices work – and which don’t – in analyzing this market? What forms of study or reporting – anthropology? Sociology? The “New New” journalism? – are most effective in covering the art world and making sense of its byways? With Marion Maneker (Art Market Monitor), Sergey Skaterschikov (Skate’s Art Market Research), Sarah Thornton (author, Seven Days in the Art World, (W.W. Norton, 2008), Judd Tully (Editor at Large, Art + Auction), and Edward Winkleman (Winkleman Gallery, NY). Moderated by Sarah Douglas (Senior Correspondent, Art+Auction and Modern Painters magazines).

Time: 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Location: The Armory Show, Open Forum Lounge, Pier 92

Marc Seguin La Foi du Braconnier

2 Feb

ArtJetSet had the immense priviledge of visiting with painter come author Marc Séguin at his studio in Brooklyn last spring, during which time his paintings were on view at Scope Art Fair New York.

An avid hunter, who incorporates taxidermied skins into his large format paintings, Séguin has recently published a compelling fictious non-autobiographic novel titled La Foi du Braconnier (The Faith of a Poacher).

Le braconnier is a poacher who travels between Canada and the United States absorbed in a dark narrative of isolation. Our protagonist is rebounded by intimate encounters between himself and lovers, companions, the law, religion and of course his prey.
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Curators as Models for Y

13 Aug

Exhibit Y: the new spring look book for Yohji Yamamoto’s second line Y’s features curators as the models.

How hot are Julien Fronsacq (Palais de Tokyo, Paris); Olivier Sailliard (Musée de la Mode et du Textile, Paris); Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Gallery, London)

Of course the gorgeous women of the art world Léanne Sacramone (Fondation Cartier, Paris); Kaat Debo (Momu Anvers, Antwerp); Angeline Scherf (Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris)

Past concepts have included shooting the clothes on graphic designers, actors and classical dancers.

Hans Ulrich Obrist book talk at the Guggenheim

22 Jul
Walter Hopps will be here in 20 minutes!!

On stage with recently appointed Guggenheim Director Richard Armstrong and Curator Nancy Spector, Hans Ulrich Obrist discussed issues on curating and his career, as a presentation of his new book A Brief History of Curating.

As curator of over 140 shows to date, and current director of the Serpentine Gallery, Obrist explains that the curator is really an accomplice of the artist, and that looking and looking again is the adage to live by.

The lecture itself was filled with a lot of name dropping and anecdotal quotes pulled from his book, a transcribed oral history of the great curators in the voices current artworld greats and important curators.
Little buttons were given out as a hommage to mythicly tardy and notorius for disappearing Corcoran Gallery director Waltehr Hopps.

WhiteWall Magazine

28 Jun


Whitewall Magazine, a gorgeous art and luxury lifestyle magazine, should be on the coffee table of everyone in the arts.

The Summer Issue launch party was held at 60 Thompson Hotel, where ArtJetSet caught up with Andres Serrano.

7 Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton

7 Nov

Sarah Thornton has just published her second book, Seven Days in the Art World.
The Auction * The Crit * The Fair * The Prize * The Magazine * The Studio Visit * The Biennale
Seven days, Seven Chapters, and numerous clever insights into the mysterious underbelly of the $12 million dollar stuffed shark beast!
The Devil Wears Prada for the Art World, Thornton captivates and demystifies the art world in an accessible way. She shows how value is accrued and contemporary art legitimized.
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