Dealers who live like a collector, travel in Egypt, and more: Morning links

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Death of inner gui, greed and virtue signals? Art Consultant Ralph Deluca Share his two cents in “The Art Market Cool” nourish from his “Vintage Los Angeles Villa.” “Those who know me, or follow me on social media – realize that I won’t spend the summer in Hampton or Aspen like my clients, or spend the entire Europe like A-class celebrities.” DeLuca couldn’t help wondering the recent gallery closures, bankruptcies, litigation and “market explosions” were driven by numbers in trade. “It feels like the stress of living like their clients and other super-rich participants in the art world”. DeLuca grew up in the “lower middle class” stressed that he was not the part of the catcher: “I never lived that kind of life like that and tried to live under my means while still living as much as possible. Frankly, frankly, customers don’t want their suppliers – yes, that’s what we live, especially people like them, especially those who work in commissions.” He also suggested that arts tend to be largely inclined to “Identity politics-As a message, art is a virtue signal. In today’s “less obvious ‘awakening’ political atmosphere”, he asked, “collectors just feel less eager to support certain voices or be consistent with cultural moments?”

The bright side of the art market. artsy‘ Maxwell Raab It also attaches importance to the “cool art market”. Unlike many writers, Raab is looking at the bright side. He believes that the current discussions about gallery closures and market struggles “maybe less than decline than the way the art world chooses to look for.” “Like the industry as a whole, the U.S. market is recognized as well. Slump . As collector demand pockets have cooled: “Some people who buy 200 jobs a year are now buying 40,” Clean up‘ Babin explain. “It’s an 80% drop, but it’s still important. There’s a lot of fluff.” Raab still writes, “The reality is more subtle.” “The art world has a huge ability to reshape,” Adah director Kinsay Robb explain. “We all have creativity. We represent creatives. We create creativity in our own way. It’s an exciting opportunity for change.”

Digestion

Sotheby’s gets a collection of Chicago patrons Cindy Pritzkerhighlighted by Vincent Van Gogh, Christie won a bigger fortune Patricia and Robert WesAccording to Katya Kazakina, it includes works by Rothko, Mondrian, Picasso and Matisse. [Artnet News]

People Inc. Announced on Friday that the famous sculpture has been sold plantoirdecorated the company’s campus by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen, but said it was not free to disclose where the artwork would go or the price to pay. [Des Moines Register]

The cow’s teeth are buried beside it Stonehenge How to form the ancient stone circles of Wiltshire, England have been clarified. [The Art Newspaper]

Artnews Top 200 Collectors Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza and Stella Rollig,director Galerie Belvederehas been granted state orders by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy Because their contribution to the travel exhibition is “In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s.” [NAMU]

Finally opened Egyptian MuseumThe Egyptian government is making changes to enhance the visitor experience around the pyramids, but local suppliers and guides say the modification threatens the livelihoods of the Neaby community rooted in generations of tourism practices. [Smithsonian Magazine]

Kicking

The final drop this morning. The interaction between repetition and variation is the medium of how we perceive structure, rhythm, and depth, American theoristSamuel Jay Keyser writing MIT readers. “Art critics often bring to painting history, culture, painting schools, etc. But what is often missed is how watching the behavior of psychological structures in the brain – how certain forms of arrangement trigger deep perceived satisfaction,” Keysers noted. If we look Gustave Caillebotte‘ Paris Street, rainy day (1877), for example, not as a recognized street scene but as an arrangement of geometric objects, “the first thing that pops out is the extent to which triangles dominate the canvas. The foreground and midground contain five umbrellas. The umbrellas are themselves rounded distortions of a triangle. But notice that the umbrellas are made up of smaller triangles within a triangle. Here is a painting that luxurys in representations This reflects the similarity between two similar shapes, while also preserving the difference. “He wrote that the work is “a stuffed full of visual rhyme. The triangle theme does not end with an umbrella. Note that the three numbers on the left. They form the points of the triangle.”