“The transformation from the established model of the Academy to an increasingly free-market system was slow and piecemeal.”
Published in 1996, Making Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth-Century Art is still one of the basic books for understanding the making of the art market. Written by Picasso scholar Michael [...]

Cautionary Tales: Critical Curating. Edited by Steven Rand and Heather Kouris. New York: apexart, 2007. 128 pages. ISBN 9781933347103
By Shana Beth Mason
Less of a “how-to” guide on becoming, being and remaining a contemporary curator, the second edition of Cautionary Tales: Critical Curating is a lucid, plainly crafted text by such respected theorists and [...]

By Taliesin Thomas
I have been visiting the Whitney Biennale since the mid-1990s. During the years I didn’t make the show in person, I read the reviews published in magazines such as Art in America and ArtNews. Over the decades I have observed a certain predictable trope: the show tanks—either conceptually, physically, or spiritually. Nevertheless, the show must [...]

The following interview between Todd Schroeder and KAYA took place throughout the month of October, 2020, initially through a series of emails followed by a final zoom meeting. The stimulus for the interview is an exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, GA-”KAYA: Under Ursus”that was curated by Ariella Wolens. The exhibition took place [...]

By John Valentine
The following article presents a debate about the distinction, if any, between art and craft. I have chosen the lead-in reference to the twin monsters that threatened Odysseus in Homer’s classic work The Odyssey, even though the philosophical debate about art and craft contains nothing threatening and is certainly not a matter of ‘choosing [...]

“Art history hasn’t shown much interest in the social and economic conditions of art and its relation to the history of the art market.”

In his latest book From Roman Feria to Global Art Fair, From Olympia Festival to Neo-liberal Biennial: On the “Biennialization” of Art Fairs and the “Fairization” of Biennials, curator and writer Paco [...]

By Michele Robecchi
About two years ago, an extraordinarily fortuitous circumstance occurred. Unbeknownst to one another, in the boardrooms of several art institutions scattered around the globe, staffers were having the same conversation at the same time. Whether initiated by people at the helm, team members or trustees interested enough to participate, it pretty much revolved around this basic question: [...]

A Conversation between Tim White-Sobieski and Hans Op de Beeck
Visual artists Tim White-Sobieski (USA) and Hans Op de Beeck (Belgium) have accepted ARTPULSE’s invitation to discuss their new media and film practices and the challenges of both current technology and the art market.

“We as artists have to find the way how to confront the state and capitalism.”
Santiago Sierra is Spain’s most well-known international artist. To some, his work is polemic; to others, it is pertinent, but it does not leave anyone indifferent. It reflects on the contradictions and paradoxes of the capitalist system, of which [...]

Tim Hadfield is a British artist, curator and writer who is a professor of media arts at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, where he was the founding head of the department. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe. Hadfield has lectured at many renowned institutions, including Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Savannah [...]

Gregory Buchakjian is an interdisciplinary artist and art historian. He is director of the School of Visual Arts at Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA). His research and practice deal with Beirut and its history. From 2009 to 2016, he explored the city, collected vestiges and encountered passers-by, scholars and artists in a process that generated [...]