Archive for the 'museum' Category

"Since there can be no written contract, the sale of a Sehgal piece must be conducted orally, with a lawyer or a notary public on hand to witness it. The work is described; the right to install it for an unspecified number of times under the supervision of Sehgal or one of his representatives is stipulated; and the price is stated. The buyer agrees to certain restrictions, perhaps the most important being the ban on future documentation, which extends to any subsequent transfers of ownership. 'If the work gets resold, it has to be done in the same way it was acquired originally,' says Jan Mot, who is Sehgal’s dealer in Brussels. 'If it is not done according to the conditions of the first sale, one could debate whether it was an authentic sale. It’s like making a false Tino Sehgal, if you start making documentation and a certificate.'"

Candidate for this weekend.

The "Exhibition Preparation" section is, of course, particularly fascinating.

Sort of begs the question what is actually made to last? There's artwork in museums that's thousands of years old. And performance art, which can only be curated through means and materials other than the art itself (which then becomes the art itself?)

Oh, that Andy Warhol. What will he think up next?

Completist approach to Duchamp's most famous piece, and what is to be done with it. My high school Marxist Studies teacher (no joke) continuously used Fountain as an example of how ridiculous the art world is (fair point) but there's much more to it.

Thanks to Leah et Lauren for this - pretty much simultaneously. Frank Lloyd Wright, for all his expertise, didn't seem to know shit about concrete. Falling Waters, anyone?