Sunday, January 24, 2010
Art Consulting and Marketing
2. Consulting on whether to buy or sell a work of art
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4. Consulting on insurance issues
5. Seminars and lectures on art business issues
6. Critical essay for an exhibition or collection catalogue
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Britain in 2010 – as predicted in 1990- Amazing article published today
In 1990, the century was getting ready to end and London too – its defeated human population draining away, its traffic choked, its decrepit buildings augmented by cardboard cities lodging indigent teenagers – seemed to be on its last legs. Looking 20 years ahead, the Observer imagined a dystopia like that in Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Ridley Scott'sBlade Runner: either a dualistic city with the rich en skied in inaccessible towers and the poor penned underground, or a third world swamp teeming with people anxious for expatriation to another planet. Despair even reduced us to agreeing with Prince Charles, who had been whingeing about the city's "inhumanity".
Gurus, when asked to prognosticate about 2010, warned of trouble. The Labour MP Tony Banks expected that a widening gulf between ostentatious wealth and dank poverty would provoke class war. The urban planner Peter Hall worried about a property market driven by reckless greed and noted the existence of an underclass excluded from the economy and hardly belonging to society. The journalist Peter Kellner recommended that London's population should be decreased by two million – did he expect a convenient plague, or a particularly spectacular al-Qaida atrocity? – and set an example by abruptly moving to Cambridge...
by P. Conrad, The Observer (24/1/10)
Friday, January 22, 2010
Shiro Kuramata
