Magazine / The Summer of Art / From the press | 19/07/2007
A Supermarket for Art or a School for Seeing?
Art critics take stock of the Venice Biennale, Documenta, Sculpture Projects and Art Basel. The newspapers either report on the rise of the major exhibitions or take them as an opportunity to reflect on the future of art. They analyse the growing impact of the market on art.
About the Exhibitions
Italy - Corriere della Sera | Wednesday, 6. June 2007
Manifold exhibitons around the Venice Biennale
The 52nd Venice Biennale, directed by Robert Storr, the first ever American to do so, opens this Sunday, June 10th. The writer and critic Sebastiano ... » more
France - Télérama | Wednesday, 30. May 2007
Sophie Calle artistic remedy for break-up blues
As the multi media artist Sophie Calle prepares to represent France at the Venice Biennale this summer, the journalists Erwan Desplanques and Virginie Félix have ... » more
Germany - Süddeutsche Zeitung | Tuesday, 17. July 2007
Cuisine and artful dishes at Ferran Adrià's restaurant
Ferran Adrià is the first cook to participate in an exhibition of contemporary art - Documenta in Kassel - as an artist. Every day a ... » more
Poland - Polityka | Wednesday, 4. July 2007
Artur Zmijewski's documenta exhibit as an instructive work on intolerance
"If prizes were awarded at the documenta exhibition, Zmijewski would be my favourite," writes Piotr Sarzynski about Polish artist Artur Zmijewski and his 15-minute video ... » more
Germany - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung | Friday, 22. June 2007
Productive failure at the documenta 12
As if it wasn't bad enough that Kassel's street cleaners removed the work of Chilean artist Lotty Rosenfeld, the documenta 12 exhibition is also having ... » more
Germany - Frankfurter Rundschau | Friday, 15. June 2007
Documenta 12 - the succesful 'migration of form'
Elke Buhr went to a preview of the Documenta art exhibition, which opens on Saturday in the German city of Kassel: "The artistic director Roger ... » more
Germany - Die Welt | Thursday, 10. May 2007
Ferran Adrià on cuisine and art
Spanish super-chef Ferran Adrià, who runs the restaurant El Bulli on the Costa Brava, is taking part in this year's Documenta in Kassel. He tells ... » more
Germany - Süddeutsche Zeitung | Tuesday, 3. April 2007
1001 Chinese at the Documenta exhibition in Kassel
In an interview with Henrik Bork, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei explains why he is bringing 1001 Chinese to the Documenta exhibition in Kassel for his ... » more
Germany - Die Welt | Friday, 24. February 2006
Documenta 2007
"Never before has this been done so early", remarks Uta Baier after a press conference at which Roger M. Buergel, director of the 2007 international ... » more
Germany - die tageszeitung | Saturday, 16. June 2007
Münster becomes an open-air museum
Every ten years the "Sculpture Projects" exhibition takes place in Münster, where sculptures and installations change the face of the city. Henrike Thomson writes that ... » more
About Art Basel
Switzerland - Le Temps | Monday, 18. June 2007
'Art Basel' has pointed the way to artistic consensus
Laurent Wolf takes stock of the 38th 'Art Basel', art fair in Switzerland, that ended on June 17th. "Never before, in twenty years, has been ... » more
Switzerland - Neue Zürcher Zeitung | Wednesday, 13. June 2007
The Art Basel fair
Philipp Meier had a look at the Art Basel art fair and came to the following conclusion: "Discoveries are becoming increasingly rare; commerce is king ... » more
About the art market
France - Le Monde | Tuesday, 17. July 2007
Contemporary art, the last bastion of insider trading
Harry Bellet and Emmanuel de Roux note the arrival of speculators in the burgeoning contemporary art market. "Insider trading, which will land a trader in ... » more
United Kingdom - The Guardian | Thursday, 28. June 2007
Charlotte Higgens questions the cost of art
Following the record-breaking sale of a Damien Hirst sculpture last week, Charlotte Higgens, the Guardian's art correspondent, reflects on the increasing power of money in ... » more
United Kingdom - The Times | Friday, 26. January 2007
A virtual campaign for preserving British art in Britain
The art critic Ben Macintyre has invested £5 in a virtual brushstroke of a painting by Turner, 'The Blue Rigi', for sale online. Last year ... » more
Belgium - Le Soir | Thursday, 30. November 2006
Art taken hostatge by money
The self-taught Belgian painter Jacques Charlier denounces the harmful role of money on the art market in an interview conducted by Dominique Legrand. "We are ... » more
Spain - ABC | Friday, 10. November 2006
Speculation on the art market
"A speculative tendency has returned to the art market", notes the daily, listing several record bids in auctions over the past few weeks, including the ... » more
United Kingdom - The Guardian | Friday, 13. October 2006
Frieze, London's lucrative art fair
"Frieze represents the moment in London's calendar when commerce and art become most nakedly and shamelessly entwined", considers arts correspondent Charlotte Higgins regarding Britain's biggest ... » more
Belgium - La Libre Belgique | Wednesday, 21. June 2006
The art market marches to beat of global economy
A portrait by the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt has sold for $135 million (107 million euros), the highest price ever paid for a painting at ... » more
Germany - Die Zeit | Thursday, 15. December 2005
International Art Market
The international art market has never been as frenetic and over-hyped as it is today, comments Hanno Rauterberg. The works of contemporary artists are currently ... » more
About art in general
Germany - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung | Friday, 29. June 2007
Thomas Wagner on the future of the museum
The museum is the "ventricle" of contemporary art, writes Thomas Wagner, who has visited all three of this summer's major exhibitions: the Venice Biennale, the ... » more
Germany - Berliner Zeitung | Tuesday, 12. June 2007
Sebastian Preuss on art as a mass phenomenon
This year's "hot summer of art", with the Biennale arts festival, the Art Basel art show, the Documenta art exposition in Kassel and the sculpture ... » more
France - Le Monde | Friday, 8. June 2007
Every town wants its own contemporary art biennale
"112 contemporary art biennales now exist in the world. The multiplication is exponential, testifying to the rampant globalisation of contemporary art. In June, the action ... » more
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