Posted in Reading, Thinking, tagged Ad words, Alec Soth, banksy, Bill Parcells, Cindy Sherman, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koon, jerry saltz, Ron Diorio, Ryna McGinley on May 14, 2010 |
Sudden death (2010) Ron Diorio
On our trip to Philadelphia on Friday, Peter Hay Halpert and I were talking about Bill Parcell’s quote “You are what your record says you are” and how it could be applied to the visual arts.
My record according to Google. World wide searches as a proxy for score keeping.
Source: Google Ad word tool: Sunday May 9, 2010
Posted in Reading, Thinking, tagged art, culture, facebook, jerry saltz, media on February 5, 2010 |
The sixth anniversary of Facebook comes as the total user base is reaching nearly 400 million. Facebook is fast becoming the web.
On Facebook Jerry Saltz’s friends are close to 5,000 in number. His Facebook “Seeing Out Loud” cyber neighborhood is almost 2,800.
Given his status in the “art world”, I would have expected a network greater than that. Or is that all of an audience there is?
For some other Facebook comparisons MoMA is at 250k, the Met 110k (absurdly low) the New Museum an anemic 13k and Saltz’s New York Magazine 6.5k.
The connection people have toward “fine art” in any real contemporary sense seems cool to non-existent. And that is a shame. Remaining insular and clubby has operational value but it is counter intuitive to awareness and the cultivation of collectors and new benefactors.
It can’t be a long term benefit to anyone that contemporary art only surfaces in the general public’s mind around sales price or church/religious bashing or the two headed PR monster of homophobia/homo-eroticism.
Am I wrong about this? How do we get to a new accessibility?
Exhibitions
Directors Lounge 8
Nightlight
One minute Vol 5, Feb 15, 9pm
Publication
Empire City
Book, print and 3 video works on DVD
Limited edition of 50
Signed and numbered
Published by Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art
Oct 2011
(ISBN 978-0-9839698-0-8)
Comin' around again
Limited Edition Book and Print
Published by Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art
April 2010
(ISBN 978-0-615-35269-5)
