the end of art.

Duchamp - Urinal

Nice article in Newsweek magazine this month entitled "Why is Art so Dammed effing Expensive".

A couple of my favorite quotes:
“If I can’t sell something, I just double the price.” That’s what Ernst Beyeler, the great Swiss dealer who helped found Art Basel, reportedly said."


and shortly after that:
 “Obviously, it’s wonderful to see the price rise,” she said, since that’s confirmation of the object’s cultural worth.:" - New York collector Agnes Gund


Here is the comment I left: 

Art is Dead. This is the symptom. The history of art as a progressive movement towards self realization in the Hegalian sense has reached it's fruition. And it is indeed artists who have killed it. By claiming with conceptual art that any idea can be art they have also determined that anyone can be an artist. This makes art virtually worthless and as Hegal states "As Spirit reaches its full self-realization, the need for images and symbols withers away, and with it goes the need for any art that uses physical means to express itself."  

Art today has been reduced to marketing tactics like branding and artificially perceived value. While other artists are expected to just give their work away because they do not have a "name". 

Please feel free to comment. - alex