shining a light on the shadowy fine art industry
Kader Attia, "Soldat Blesse, Masque Malade (Lega)" (2013), at Galleria Continua's booth.
Following up on what I was discussing yesterday (since the draft of this post I saved last night disappeared into the ether): Tech tends not to benefit the collector at a fair because of a fundamental reality of the art market - the asymmetry of information.
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Ai Weiwei, "Table with Two Legs" (2008). At the Rubell Family Collection.
Realizing today how tech has (and has not) shifted the landscape of fairs. When I was prepping my old boss for his trips to these events years ago, it was a frantic and paranoid process because he could only show clients works that he had actual hard copy images of.
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