The Revival of Yasmina Reza Drama Art This fall, on Broadway, it’s an interesting time for the art world.
In the script, three of the new work (played by Neil Patrick Harris, James Corden and Bobby Cannavale) look like a blank canvas. In fact, it is an avant-garde painting by a famous artist. These three just bought the painting for a high price. Another thought it was a terrible and couldn’t believe his friend paid a lot for it. In the 90-minute conversation between Wild and the comics, Art Ancient questions about relationships are asked – cruel honesty you can be with friends and still keep them. Of course, it also asks some basic questions about art. As Michael Billington said guardian In 2016, “Reza… Asks if aesthetics are now confused with market value: When we read the countless millions of paintings sold in the auction room, do we somehow rate them higher?” After overheating of young artists, collectors are evaluating the confusion that could lead to their purchases.
When the drama was first performed, in Paris in 1994, the art market was in a similar position: in the 1980s hangover, it was a headache due to the confusion of aesthetics and market value. In the 1980s, there were a lot of headlines about the always expensive painting splashing on the front page of the newspaper: Ryoei Saito for Van Gogh for $82.5 million Dr. GachetArne Glimcher of Pace sells Jasper Johns (a living artist!) to Whitney. Those headlines are waving through hands, i.e. aesthetics are indeed confused with market value.
In the following decades, things only increased. We have seen the boom in the early 2000s, the boom-heavy boom from 2011 to 2023, attributed to Leonardo’s attributable to Leonardo for $450 million, and the rise of speculation about wet paint artists. In the 1980s and 1990s, no one was worried about taking the random example of these complaints heard today, random examples of critic Jason Farago New York Times In 2022. In the title “Catch a Rising Star at Auction,” Farrago wrote, watching the work of young artists make millions of dollars in Marquee’s spring sales, like…like an allergic shock. Even after years of artistic value, even the price of art over the years, as arbitrary as the number of social insurance people, this is a critic who has paid criticism in criticism and a representative attitude, and has occupied the House of Representatives, my statistics are that I am competent and I will have a place. Speculative hype seems like I’m not alive anymore. ”
exist Artthe fierce arguments of these two men ultimately lead to (complex) acts of vandalism. So, what was that expensive painting? In the original script, Reza wrote that the piece cost 200,000 francs (less than $60,000 today). according to Fashionfor new production director Scott Ellis consulted Met’s curator to come up with an updated price – which seemed expensive in today’s words, ended up at $300,000. That’s about how much I had to pay last December, [consults list of sales at Art Basel Miami] Painting by Lesley Vance. $300,000 for contemporary art works $300,000? a little? In today’s market, some collectors call the main price “irrational”, who knows!
“It’s a big number and it feels very right.” Fashion Author Adrienne Miller observed $300,000 in “art” articles. “In an era where everything is hyperbolic and inflated, cost, expertise, self, anger – prices must rise accordingly.”
