#dan duray

[gagosiangallery]

Jeffrey Deitch and Gagosian Team Up to Defeat Zombie Formalism

ABSTRACT/NOT ABSTRACT, their joint show in Miami, is all about meaning/expression.

For the past three years, a reliable place to look for good art during Art Basel Miami Beach has been the Design District’s Moore Building, the venue for a string of curatorial collaborations between Jeffrey Deitch and Gagosian. The initial prompt for the New York dealers’ embrace of co-production, Deitch explained to me during last night’s opening of the unofficial series current and third installment, ABSTRACT/NOT ABSTRACT, was that local real-estate kingpin Craig Robbins double-booked the place the first year. (This was when Deitch was working as director of LA MoCA and art world outsiders would, the dealer recalled, quiz him about what they should be looking at.)

[thoughtstheyexplode]

"Every day, Kawara’s fake Twitter handle announces to its 5,000 followers, ‘I Am Still Alive,’ followed by the addendum ‘#art.’ These messages may receive many re-Tweets, but they miss the point of his work. If we want to persist in the belief that Kawara lives on through his art—his daily record of his existence—it is because, as with Kaufman, we still want the bright side to peak through that darkness, still want the possibility that both men simply chose to drop the act and go away. Because otherwise the joke’s on them, just as it eventually will be on all of us." 

- Dan Duray, ARTnews, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow…, The Guggenheim mounts an anti-retrospective of the time-obsessed artist On Kawara

[thoughtstheyexplode]

”.. Do something unfunny once and it’s not funny, do it for a prolonged period and it’s very funny, keep doing it and it becomes dark and uncomfortable.”

- Dan Duray, ARTnews, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow…, The Guggenheim mounts an anti-retrospective of the time-obsessed artist On Kawara

[compostnyc-blog]

[facingthecurrent-blog]

A few years into their establishment, Artsy, Artspace and Paddle8, the three start-ups that sought to revolutionize the art market (and seem best positioned to do so in terms of publicity and funding) have now entered the period in which they must solidify their business plans. “Let’s see if consumers are ready to buy art in significant numbers online,” [says Sergey Skaterschikov, an investor and art market analyst who sits on the board of Paddle8.]

ARTICLE || New possibilities and business models for the art market. On three start-ups for selling and buying art on-line that are entering (financial) adulthood: Artsy, Artspace and Paddle8

Dan Duray, galleristny.com They Clicked With Investors—Now What? Who Will Win the Race to Sell Art Online? (read)