Oare aduce recesiunea o nouă Renaştere?

... se întreabă James Westcott după ce a vizitat The Armory Show în New York.

The Armory Show – now in its 11th year, and named after the 1913 art fair that brought Marcel Duchamp and modern art to New York – is actually expanding rather than contracting. In addition to the 177 contemporary galleries (17 more than last year) in pier 94, which juts out into the near-freezing Hudson river, this year the adjoining pier 92 plays host to the "Armory Show – Modern": 68 galleries, many with that unnerving suffix "fine art" to their names, selling older, less edgy but more established work. A Lucian Freud is being sold here for an ambitious $14m at Faurschou gallery (and was unsold as of last night). The Armory Show figures it needs to start appealing to the older money – as well as the young collectors with Wall Street bonuses, so common in recent years.

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