Hello All,
Our collaboration with Brett Scott on Building the Activist Bloomberg is
featured in the latest issue of the Journal of Finance and Society.
http://financeandsociety.ed.ac.uk/article/view/1727/2229
More about the special Issue on ART AND FINANCE
Edited by Suhail Malik and Gerald Nestler
"The editorial premise of this special issue is that the adage ‘art and
money do not mix’ is now wholly untenable. As detailed in our extended
interview with Clare McAndrew, the art market has grown rapidly over the
last twenty years, leading to systemic and structural changes in the art
field. For some, this growth of the market and its significance for art
is an institutional misfortune that, for all of its effects, is
nonetheless inconsequential to the normative claim that art and money
shouldn’t mix. This commonplace premise looks to keep the sanctity or
romance of art from the business machinations of market mechanisms, as
eloquently summarised by Oscar Wilde’s definition of cynicism (‘knowing
the price of everything and the value of nothing’).
This issue repudiates that normative moral code, and precisely for the
reasons just stated: by now, the interests of the art market permeate
all the way through the art system. The interests of the art market
shape what is exhibited and where; what kinds of discourse circulate
around which art (or even as art) and in what languages; and what, in
general, is understood to count as art. In short, the art market –
comprising mainly of collectors, galleries and auction houses – is now
the primary driver in what is valuable in art."
see more details of the NY launch here
http://p-exclamation.com/programs/launch-reception-and-film-screening/
details of the London launch to follow.
Journal link:
http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/finsoc.v2i2
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