Tag: jeff koons

Salvatore Garau and There Is No Original Avant Garde Art After Marcel Duchamp

Salvatore Garau and There Is No Original Avant Garde Art After Marcel Duchamp

In the second installment of this informal “Why I Hate The World I Live In And How Society Has Fucked Up Art Or The Other Way Around” I bring you week-old news of a recent artwork sale in Italy by an Italian artist.Why is this …

Art Market Matters: The Most Expensive Photograph in the World and Peter Lik

Art Market Matters: The Most Expensive Photograph in the World and Peter Lik

When you type in the words “world’s most expensive photograph” you don’t actually get the Koons result. I wasn’t entirely sure why this should be but can only surmise that google hasn’t caught up yet. What you do find when you type in the above …

Art Market Matters: The Most Expensive Photograph and Jeff Koons

Art Market Matters: The Most Expensive Photograph and Jeff Koons

I was doing some reading recently and came across a figure retrieved from a report on the Global Photography Market. [1] Because I don’t pay for exclusive access to sites like ArtTactic or Artnet’s price database, I had to do some digging. As it turned …