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Christine Mehring, Emerging market: Christine Mehring on the Birth of the Contemporary Art Fair, Art Forum, April, 2008

This article had to do with the contemporary art fair in the now, past and future. Mehring talks about how the fair got started then works her way up to what its like now and what it could be in the near future. although there seemed to be some parts where she somewhat pokes fun at the art fair, but not sure what that is all about. Overall she goes through the process of how the art fair came to be.

As for this article having anything to do with my work, I think that it doesn't this very moment but if I wanted to enter this type of scene I thing that it will be very involved with shaping my work and how I present it.

Roberta Smith's Who Needs a White Cube These Days? (January 2006), A New Boss, and a Jolt of Real-Life  Experience  (January 2010), Anti-Mainstream Museum's Mainstream Show

All these articles by Smith talk about current issues and questions that are big in the art world today. One being the use of the art gallery and the way it's being presented and how today it's anything but a white cube.  While another talks about Jeffrey Deitch and his new position as the Director at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and all of the challenges he has ahead of him.

As to these articles fitting in to my work, I've haven't even thought much about it but I may run into these issues in the future.

readings nov. 9

Jack Burgess explains Contemporary Art, 2010 and Dave Hickey on The Birth of the Big, Beautiful Art Market, from Air Guitar, 1997

Both of these were trying to explain contemporary art and its market by comparing it with something else. Hickey was comparing contemporary art and its market to the car market and his relationship to it. While Burgess was comparing contemporary art to more simple and more general ideas that you go through in everyday life.

I guess, in a way, I use this idea in my art.  I tend to take something I'm interested in and compare it to my art or to art in general.