Category Archives: Making work

Metaphors are useful ways of understanding complex situations by replacing things with symbols, allowing us to visualize the relationships between them with greater ease. A metaphorical way of thinking about the emergent 21st Century art world is to imagine it as a … Continue reading →

The Party’s Over for the Avant-Garde Friday 18th September, the board of the Guggenheim Museum acquired a $120,000 banana for its permanent collection. In December 2019 crowds at Art Basel Miami Beach laughed themselves into a lather when Maurizio Cattelan … Continue reading →

Recently I noticed a strange phenomenon – the old centers of bohemian life had vanished, and young bohemians were no longer gathering together in communities as they once did. Now, the bohemians are using the internet to find connection with … Continue reading →

This story came up because of a strange synchronicity between a Facebook meme and looking at paintings. The Facebook meme simply explained the meaning of the Welsh word “hiraeth,” which is a deep feeling of longing for home, like nostalgia … Continue reading →

My story “Adam Miller and Salvatore Guerrero. When Artist & Patron Go Big” – in the latest edition of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine. Don’t miss it! Here are the first few paragraphs, but you’ll have to buy your own copy … Continue reading →

Don’t miss picking up your copy of the September edition of Fine Art Connoisseur. In it, you’ll find my story about the relationship between Adam Miller and his patron Salvatore Guerrera. Adam is producing extraordinary art, doubtlessly made possible by … Continue reading →

MutualArt published my story: Julie Heffernan’s Fountainhead, Her Annihilation, Her Eve, Her Eden. “Many of the surrealists left the mysterious landscape of the imagination largely uncharted, barely penetrating the frontiers of the subconscious. Not so Heffernan.” I really enjoyed writing this. … Continue reading →

My article about Laurie Lipton is probably the darkest story I’ve written. When she read it she said, “A good read, but I think I need a drink.” Curiously, that’s how I feel about her drawings.

I wrote this article for MutualArt about the problem with hedge-fund billionaire Ken Griffin’s purchase of a Basquiat for $100,000,000. In it, I describe the issue faced by US museums that it doesn’t really matter how many paintings by minority … Continue reading →