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Money too tight (to change)

February 9, 2008 – 21:30

txt: Money Changes Everything - Art to go by Regina Hackett
Good point, but what Clement Greenberg wrote in the 1940s is still true, that money is art’s umbilical cord. If collectors can’t afford to buy and donors are too pinched to donate what they could sell at auction, we’ve got trouble right here in River [...]

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They’ve bought even the caos

December 12, 2007 – 0:09

txt: The Colour of Money - www.frieze.com
But what about the artists who effectively harness the commercial forces of our cultural moment, which Saltz and his editors at New York find so distasteful? Their post-Warholian impact on the current artistic landscape cannot be dismissed with simplistic ethical arguments: money is bad, so art tainted by it [...]

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