London's Frieze Prepares for a Chill - WSJ.com
I attended my first Frieze in 2004 - only it’s second year and ripping at the seams of its white tent in Regent’s Park with activity and true spectatorship.
Kelly Crow writes an interesting piece in this weekend’s WSJ on the potential (and real) impact of the economic crisis on the scale of international art fairs.
As a random sidenote - do you think the art market will follow a similar path to the music industry? With the proliferation of self-marketing tools and the ‘bust’ of the traditional record label success - musicians have taken to more non-traditional paths, signing with venues instead of labels, self-promoting and booking, etc.
Will artists do similar? Direct to market self-managed sales? A rejection of gallery representation? Is Damien Hirst onto something (but I’d argue that the market is in for something potentially more dramatic)?
If these shifts happen, we’ll need MORE curators to assist us in mucking (too negative? perhaps.) our way through all the ‘direct to you’ art that will occur.
These are just some muddled first questions - there is a much larger discussion/brainstorming session needed on this.
