“8+1 Questions About the Art Market” | Barcelona Symposium 2024

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Very nice summary of some of the history of western museums and galleries. If the white cube is no longer relevant, what is the alternative? If critics and curators are irrelevant and art doesn't sell and is not a good investment, why continue to do art? I often think about art made in the Renaissance and Baroque periods where a lot of art was commissioned by wealthy (religious) patrons. Now art is produced solely from the ideas of the artist without being filtered through the wants and needs of the patron. So where are we now?