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Selling Banksy’s Art
Since October 1st, elusive street artist Banksy has been leaving his mark in New York during a month-long residency called “Better Out Than In“. This weekend, as part of his live exhibition, Banksy set up a stall in Central Park where an unknown man sold “100% authentic original signed Banksy canvases” to the general public for $60 each. The stall contained about 25 spray art canvasses – eight paintings were sold (two were bargained down to $30 each).
Photo courtesy of Banksy.
For comparison, in 2007 Banksy’s work “Space Girl & Bird” was purchased for $576,000, and in 2008 his canvas “Keep it Spotless” was sold for $1,870,000. The BBC estimates the pieces sold yesterday could be worth as much as $31,000 each. Accompanying video can be seen on BanksyNY youtube account.
Books That Every Artist Should Own
After consulting with fellow artists, professors, historians and college syllabi, ARTINFO has put together this list of books all artists should own. With an eye toward a balance of theory, history, reference, and practical guides this list includes over 22 books covering a multitude of subjects surrounding art.
- A Life of Picasso: The Cubist Rebel, 1907-1916
by John Richardson
- Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Expanded Edition, Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin
by Lawrence Weschler
- The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari
- Seven Days in the Art World
by Sarah Thornton
- Anatomy: A Complete Guide for Artists
by Joseph Sheppard
- Orientalism
by Edward Said
- The Art Museum
edited by Phaidon
- The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art
by Lucy Lippard
- Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
by Walter Benjamin
- Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1: 1913-1926
by Walter Benjamin
- Art in Theory 1900 – 2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas
edited by Charles Harrison and Dr. Paul J. Wood, Wiley
- Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
by E.H. Gombrich
- Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A Handbook for Art Students
by James Elkins, University of Illinois Press
- History of Beauty
by Umberto Eco
- On Ugliness
by Umberto Eco
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Art History, Combined Volume (4th Edition)
by Marilyn Stokstad and Michael W. Cothren
- The Continental Aesthetics Reader
edited by Clive Cazeaux
- ART/WORK: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career
by Heather Darcy Bhandari and Jonathan Melber
- Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series
by John Berger
- Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
by Roland Barthes
- Visual Thinking
by Rudolf Arnheim
Highest Highs And Lowest Lows
In his collection titled “High Altitudeâ€, artist Michael Najjar has created beautiful semi-realistic images of mountain ranges out of photographs he took while in the Argentinean Mountains. Interestingly, the re-worked mountain ranges actually visualize the ups and downs of leading global stock indices over the past twenty to thirty years. Pictured above is a representation of
“The virtual data mountains of the stock market charts are sublimated in the materiality of the Argentinean mountainscape. The jagged rock formations act as a symbol of the thin edge between reality and simulation.â€
More of Michael’s photos are below the fold.
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William Lamson
Brooklyn based photographer and video artist William Lamson has some downright genius work over at his website. Much of his work involves itself with bb guns, balloons, gigantic paper airplanes, and more often than not, himself. His work is full of humor and surprises and was a joy to spend some time viewing.
My favorites include Work #7 from his Intervention project. It was a blast to watch and reminded me of games found at the local fair mixed with colorado blizzards and “The Christmas Story”. Watch it you’ll see what I mean. If you don’t have the time to sort through all his work (I recommend you find the time) I also recommend watching Bubbles (I need to learn how to do that), Video #8 from his Actions project and Emerge is simply beautiful.
Vandalized Trees
Among all the other wonderful artwork on his website, I really enjoy Daniel Eatock’s ongoing photo series of vandalized trees which are reoriented.
Liz Hickok’s Jell-O
Liz Hickok is a San Francisco based artist working in photography, video, sculpture, and installation, and currently Jell-O.
Embarrassed, Alternatively
I was somehow up and at the Cherry Creek Arts Festival before noon on Monday. It was pretty good. There were a bunch of the same artists that were there two years ago (I didn’t go last year) that I really enjoy (Jamie Perry, John Harris) and a handful of new ones that I really enjoyed (Kathleen Eaton). Gijyun might be interested to know I saw a “performance” by the two-fisted rock-me artist. He “did” Bono. Mostly it made me giggle, stare at my shoes and shake my head, and become embarrassed, alternatively. It was pretty hot there so I didn’t spend as much time looking around as I had previous times. It was a pleasant afternoon.
Rupturing Canine
This guy has been at it for a little while now. He’s come a long way since his first drawing. For some reason I really like his drawings. I can’t tell if it’s the creativity or the simplicity that I like most. Maybe it’s because it seems Sam Brown draws just because he likes to. Not for money, not as a job, or not to “express his complicated emotions”. And I love it when an artist will say this “you do not need my permission. I urge you to use my drawings however you like. print them out and hang them up. email them to friends. paint your own copies of them on your walls. use them in your Powerpoint presentations.” Anyway, if you don’t feel like exploring the links, a few of my most recent favorites can be found below. Enjoy.
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