I would definitely tune into 50min versions of your videos
@christopherwestpresents2 күн бұрын
So nice of you to say! But even a 10 minute video takes sooooo long to make 😢
@elijah14372 күн бұрын
@@christopherwestpresents Oh I can totally imagine. Do whatever works for you. Video essays hit the algorithm like crack these days, and you don't even have to put much work into b-roll I'm interested in hearing you pontificate on your opinions about various things contemporary art too, not just the fact-finding stuff. Nevertheless, I will just keep watching through your back-catalogue. (Also if you wanna do a video on what art publications or podcasts you think are interesting or helpful, that would be cool too)
@bernanevarez81822 күн бұрын
Selling a banana, duct tape and a certificate for over 1 million dollars is just so sad and feels incredibly wrong
@christopherwestpresents2 күн бұрын
I get it. But I love that art can now be anything.
@alexanderrochester96792 күн бұрын
@@christopherwestpresentswhy?
@cedarraine78292 күн бұрын
It might be art, but it’s not Great Art.
@christopherwestpresents2 күн бұрын
@@cedarraine7829 one of my favorite things about art is that we can all only like 10% of what we see. But that 10% is different for everyone.
@nikibordeaux2 күн бұрын
@christopherwestpresents Haven't we been there already with "R. Mutt" 100 years ago?
@JiveDadsonКүн бұрын
Lede buried here: 3:42. You're welcome.
@d718pinter2 сағат бұрын
From a Sotheby's email I got this morning: "In the coming days, we will complete our acquisition of the iconic Breuer building in New York, which previously housed three of NYC’s most important museums. The Breuer will reopen to the public as our flagship gallery next year, complete with a full slate of programming - and yes, there will be a restaurant." Charles F. Stewart Chief Executive Officer, Sotheby’s
@MrFeefle2 күн бұрын
Great idea to do regular art news like this! Thanks! Please do a video on these Moco museums that seem to be popping up around Europe - they seem like a scam somehow, mostly showing Warhols and street art, but trying to advertise a wider collection....
@christopherwestpresents2 күн бұрын
I’ll need to look into these Moco museums. Haven’t heard that term before.
@mattia72772 күн бұрын
I saw it in Barcelona. Its definitely very "hype beast" with art from Murakami, Banksy, AI art and some other hypebeast things. But overall I enjoyed it as I got to see some works from Basquiat and an amazing exhibition of Guillermo Lorca which is a great contemporary artist who lives in barcelona. In any case, all of the artists chosen, including Basquiat and Lorca are there not for the art but for their fame in barcelona.
@Nashvillain10SE2 күн бұрын
🎈🥳🥳🎉🎉🎊🎊🎈🎈 *Congratulations on 10,000 subscribers!!!* 🎈🥳🥳🎉🎉🎊🎊🎈🎈
@christopherwestpresents2 күн бұрын
Thank you so much!! You’ll always be one of the firsts :)
@user-td2lg1fl6h2 күн бұрын
Keep up the good work Chris! Your video on On Kawara has really made me appreciate post modernist art more than i would.
@christopherwestpresents2 күн бұрын
So nice to hear. Thank you!
@sherrykerlin10472 күн бұрын
Thank you for the info!
@christopherwestpresentsКүн бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@jamesduncan5782 күн бұрын
Hi Chris, I'm a little lost on the "banana". I think the picture on the wall behind you said it all.
@christopherwestpresents2 күн бұрын
Haha. Fair enough. It probably says a lot about me that I like both!
@jbb-cj1md2 күн бұрын
Cattelan originally made three of the banana pieces, two of which were sold and one donated to an institution. The sucker er, I mean, the buyer of the one that will be auctioned will receive a certificate of authenticity and directions for showing it. The buyer will also receive a new banana and a roll of duct tape. (Catellan apparently likes duct tape; he once duct taped a dealer to the wall of his gallery).
@christopherwestpresents2 күн бұрын
Yes an edition of 3. Sold much like a Sol LeWitt wall drawing.
@gabriellawarner9037Күн бұрын
would you ever consider recording longer chats and putting them on spotify as podacsts ??? would 100% listen!!
@christopherwestpresentsКүн бұрын
Possibly! But that seems like a whole diffferent animal and these videos already take forever to produce. Will look more into it!
Always always! refreshing to watch your videos, to hear you narrate. 😊
@christopherwestpresents2 күн бұрын
You don’t know what this means to me to hear this. Thank you!
@osobad11272 күн бұрын
The art world be craaaaazy 😂
@Menstral2 күн бұрын
No ghetto talk
@christopherwestpresents2 күн бұрын
That’s one of the things that keeps it fun!
@star_wars_miniatures2 күн бұрын
I watched the most recent Christie’s and Sotheby’s auctions in London live and they were fantastic 😍😍
@christopherwestpresents2 күн бұрын
As you know I love watching the auctions!
@star_wars_miniatures2 күн бұрын
@@christopherwestpresents yes you do! It’s so exciting 😍 I always feel like it’s a great opportunity to see these pieces as some of them will just go into private collections and won’t been seen again!
@christopherwestpresents2 күн бұрын
@@star_wars_miniatures so true.
@ChrisC-ei2kc2 күн бұрын
Counterfeiting, lots and lots of counterfeiting. And money laundering. Lots and lots of money laundering.
@christopherwestpresents2 күн бұрын
Buying something at a low price and selling it for a higher price is not money laundering.
@Baumscheibenkunst2 күн бұрын
As far as I can remember the banana has been eaten. So now it's a shriveled brown peel or what exactly is it that will come to market in november?
@andnowi2 күн бұрын
Didn't a cleaner eat the original banana?
@christopherwestpresents2 күн бұрын
Yes the original banana was eaten by a different artist, which he called art.
@ola_vii2 күн бұрын
@@Baumscheibenkunst The exact items to be sold are banana, duct tape and a certificate of authenticity.
@jeannagai52902 күн бұрын
its the idea of the banana taped on a wall. and the certificate of authenticity with cattelan's name. so only 3 authentic artworks of this "exist".
@Baumscheibenkunst2 күн бұрын
@@ola_vii thanks for making this clear. I am afraid this kind of art is way over my head lol
@ionlyemergeafterdark2 күн бұрын
I have a banana and some duct tape. If I want to sell it, can I exlude the wall? I need to keep my wall. Starting bid is £2million.
@christopherwestpresents2 күн бұрын
Sadly it doesn’t really work that way.
@Godfree1212Күн бұрын
You don’t have a recognized name and you haven’t slept with and done drugs with the right crowd. Once you have a name you can package your excrement and sell it. Oh sorry, that’s already been done.
@KeithBrighouse-r3k2 күн бұрын
I've been to a couple of Frieze and Art Basel art fairs and I'd rather spend my time at a flea market, it's more interesting, less pretentious and the people are more authentic. The art and knick-knacks are more visually interesting too. Art fairs are no way to show serious art seriously, the context of art fairs turns art into luxury bric-à-brac, up market kitsch. But I guess that is capitalism, when everything is turned into a commodity with monetary value, any intrinsic cultural value is sucked out of the art. Conceptual art works well out there in the real world but when it is in a white walled gallery, it tends to become a lame joke told too often and it is often the same old joke that is 100 years old now. One despairs.
@christopherwestpresents2 күн бұрын
If I were a retired multimillionaire and could just travel and look at art in museums and galleries I would prefer that too. But alas, I’m not and the fairs offer a good opportunity to see more than I ever could otherwise.
@usainengland2 күн бұрын
I hear you. Art and craft have become comically disconnected. I despair that museums often display hyped than talented artists. Anyone want a cellophane wrapped potato?
@quietbirt2 күн бұрын
Well said.
@DaveHoltArtMusic18 сағат бұрын
Interesting video, I got stuck on the, the banana can't be real, I pictured them bringing out this old brown shriveled up banana with old duck tape holding its rotting fragments onto a white surface, as the auctioneer says, let's start at $900,000. Remember, when Damien Hirst shark preserved in formaldehyde purchased by some billionaire was rotting! HaHa
@drobbi2 күн бұрын
"Summed up" how?
@matineesonmainstreet200514 сағат бұрын
Maybe I'm missing something, but bananas seem to go bad rather quickly in my kitchen. HOw can you sell a six year old banana? Is it fake? Refrigerated? sculpted?
@christopherwestpresents8 сағат бұрын
You’re buying a certificate. The banana is replaceable 🍌
@candeaguilar2 күн бұрын
Sotheby’s needs help? Can’t be serious
@christopherwestpresents2 күн бұрын
I’m guessing they’ll likely survive.
@hjcvskggiuuhbhjdrt2 күн бұрын
Would someone please explain what is the conceptual difference between the duct tape banana and Marcel Duchamp’s urinal-fountain?
@amyhogarten50382 күн бұрын
One is brilliant and the other is literal trash.
@christopherwestpresents2 күн бұрын
You can’t have the former without the latter.
@bigtosz2 күн бұрын
Seriously? Fountain is a tangible thing that sits on a pedestal somewhere and can only exist in one place at one time. Comedian is more like Sol LeWitt's murals; it's a certified set of plans that you use to re-create the piece wherever and whenever you like, and it goes away after a limited time.🍌
@amyhogarten50382 күн бұрын
@@hjcvskggiuuhbhjdrt Duchamp’s act of taking the urinal fountain out of its original context and placing it in a gallery setting was an exercise in “Re-Presentation”. That is, taking an object out if it’s original context and modifying it in some way to bring out the “latencies” of its form, where it can be interpreted/understood/appreciated in some new way. For instance, Claes Oldenburg would modifying the scale of common everyday objects, such as a clothespin and re-presenting it at momental size. Similar works by the Pop Art Movement followed this operation in painting and sculpture. Cambell’s soup cans yada yada yada (not that there’s anything wrong with that). With regards to the banana, perhaps it’s an exercise in demonstrating the absurdity of the modern day art market, where individuals will pay millions for works that are hard to justify in terms of their monetary value, as little merit, value, craftsmanship, technique or other factors traditionally associated with the value of an artwork can be quantified. I don’t really know; I’m sure there are several critical and/or academic “wordsplaining” that comes with the piece that motivates a person to pay millions for an ephemeral item such as duck tape and perishable produce. Of course, one could take either a urinal or a banana, put it in their residence and then say to their friends “Ok so I have some art now”. But you know, to each his own or whatever people say nowadays…
@robertpritchard99622 күн бұрын
It's pronounced BROY-er.
@quietbirt2 күн бұрын
To appreciate art, you probably need to be an artist, or at least to have carefully studied thousands of works of real fine art. So it can't be just anyone. So for the general public, businessmen have come up with a surrogate called "modern art."
@MocEmma2 күн бұрын
Contemporary*
@quietbirtКүн бұрын
@@MocEmma You're right. But I thought these terms basically mean the same thing.
@MocEmmaКүн бұрын
@@quietbirt People use them wrong 😅, because they don't know that the modern era ended many decades ago. So you have engineers and people from other areas calling today's work modern and this era modern too, which makes people think it's the same for art.
@amyhogarten5038Күн бұрын
@@quietbirt it’s not necessarily “modern art” per say, but the “art marketplace in contemporary society” There are back room calculation at play that involves a semi-coordinated effort by particular artists, art dealers, art critics, and the galleries that create conditions where a literal piece of rotting fruit can fetch fast sums which profits all parties. Why? Money laundering. An Uber wealthy “art collector” buys an item that is rubber stamped as “fine art” by the Art-Industrial Complex, holds the “certificate of authenticity” for this “work” for a specific period of time, and then sells this item at loss. This creates an opportunity to write the loss off, and offset a yearly income earning via the quantified loss. In the millions. I wouldn’t say ALL modern artwork is used as a vehicle for such schemes and all such scenarios can be consider so black and white. For instance, the self shredding of the Bansky piece “girl with balloon” could be “appreciated” (and also valued) based on whether one sees the cleverness of the commentary by the artist and also the “art event” that it created, given that it is now a “historical event” in 21st century art. I don’t know, perhaps only the “experts” can advise. This is why we can’t have nice things anymore.
@johnconn9822 күн бұрын
Chris, I think that banana might be a fake, you can’t leave a banana out for long before it gets real mushy and yucky. Please report this to the authorities and if there is a reward I will share it with you,ok ?
@christopherwestpresents2 күн бұрын
Hahaha. Deal!
@bitsoars42322 күн бұрын
Whoooa mattress factory mug spotted
@christopherwestpresents2 күн бұрын
Yes! Love the MF :)
@justinleemiller9 сағат бұрын
Poor people subsidize this industry. In the US people go into serious debt to get art degrees. In Europe taxes pay for it. The gold industry is more moral.
@christopherwestpresents8 сағат бұрын
The price of grad school is another hot topic for sure.
@mendedarrows93942 күн бұрын
You still buried the lead lol.. headlines on headlines followed by an intro. Then started with the Sotheby’s story. This content is garbage, but art all the way same.