Playfully divided into “Lots,” Barry Avrich’s sweeping and enlightening Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World investigates the entire ecosystem that comprises the art market: the auction house, the brokers, the secondary and primary markets, mega art fairs, and multiple institutions, from the Bfa and Mfa granting institutions that matter (hint: they’re mostly in New York) to great museums and collections of the world. Blurred Lines condenses a semester’s long seminar into a lively documentary with too many talking heads to name, representing established and emerging artists, buyers, tastemakers, curators, dealers, gallerists, journalists and critics. They all attempt to connect the dots as a work of art becomes a commodity worth protecting while lesser works by an artist are bid-up at auctions to preserve the value of an existing collection.
At times Blurred Lines may seem like an oversimplification of a broader, more interesting story; it does what...
At times Blurred Lines may seem like an oversimplification of a broader, more interesting story; it does what...
- 5/7/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Italian directing sensation Luca Guadagnino (“A Bigger Splash,” “Call Me By Your Name”) teamed with installation artist Taryn Simon to document her haunting meditation on grief, “An Occupation of Loss,” with virtual reality. The piece premiered at New York’s Park Avenue Armory last September.
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Taking the form of a row of 11 concrete towers, each inhabited by professional mourners from different countries, Simon blends sculpture, sound, architecture, and performance. Guadagnino’s short film takes the viewer through the installation with Simon’s voiceover as guide. Surveying the vast space, the camera enters each tower to reveal the different grieving rituals, before a door opens and light pours in, thrusting the viewer onto the busy New York streets without explanation.
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Simon...
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Taking the form of a row of 11 concrete towers, each inhabited by professional mourners from different countries, Simon blends sculpture, sound, architecture, and performance. Guadagnino’s short film takes the viewer through the installation with Simon’s voiceover as guide. Surveying the vast space, the camera enters each tower to reveal the different grieving rituals, before a door opens and light pours in, thrusting the viewer onto the busy New York streets without explanation.
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Simon...
- 4/15/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
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