Is It For Love or Money?

Sunday, 7^th February 2009

In World of High-Glamour, Low-Pay Art Market Jobs (New York, New York Times)
Working in the auction houses has always been a particular New York experience, a sorority of client-advisers and appraisers who spend weekends flying to Palm Beach or the Caribbean hoping to land a big account -- and, some of them concede, perhaps a husband -- but whose paychecks put them close to the poverty line.
New York Times - United States

For Love or Money (New York, Artforum)
"IT IS A CONTEST of wit and logic and ideas and facts and argument, and most of all, persuasion." Host John Donvan, introducing Tuesday evening's debate in the Intelligence Squared US series at Rockefeller University, declined to mention another factor sometimes known to tip the balance: charisma. But the semantics of the motion--"the art market is less ethical than the stock market"--were sufficiently fuzzy that personal magnetism certainly seemed as though it might influence the outcome.
Artforum - New York,NY,USA

Obama poster artist Shepard Fairey is arrested on tagging charges (Boston, US, LA Times)

Fairey was arrested Friday night in Boston on his way to the Institute of Contemporary Art to DJ at a sold-out party kicking off his first solo exhibition, "Supply and Demand." Two arrest warrants had been issued Jan. 24 after police determined that he had tagged property in two locations with his street art campaign featuring Andre the Giant and the word "obey," said Boston police officer James Kenneally.
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Street artist will get day in court for pasting up his art (Boston, US, Boston Globe)
Shepard Fairey is scheduled to face charges in a Boston courtroom tomorrow for allegedly pasting art without permission on two local sites that police discovered last month - one under the Boston University Bridge and the other above Storrow Drive.
Boston Globe - United States

Shepard Fairey, success (Boston, US, Boston Globe)
Tell you what. I don't know why Shepard Fairey was arrested as he was walking into a giant party at the Institute of Contemporary Art, a party he was expected to star at. I wonder why he wasn't arrested on City Hall when he was standing next to the Mayor. Or at his hotel room. Or over a latte this morning. But in a city that's been less than friendly toward public art and, some would say, to artists themselves, it's interesting to note the timing on the arrest.
Boston Globe - United States