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20 December 2002 |
ArtNet's Ask Mark Kostabi column tackles the tricky issue of whether, in the face of strong demand, to raise your prices or to keep them low and sell more:
Many pseudo-purists will advise you to keep production low and prices high. But Picasso and Warhol are the kings and barometers of the art market because they had huge quantity as well as quality. Duchamp is just as important historically but no one makes an art-market decision based on how the Duchamp market is going. Because there is no "Duchamp market." He produced too little.
5:00:17 PM 
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Looks like the police/CPS saw sense. Rhodes + Mann gallery's statement (which doesn't make it clear whether the picture was taken down or not):
19/12/02
Statement
Following the recent furore and allegations reported in the National and Local press I am delighted to report that there will be no further action taken by the police in connection with the Over Time exhibition and the included photographs by Annelies Strba. The exhibition will be closing as originally scheduled on Saturday 21 December.
Rhodes + Mann have never intended to offend visitors to our gallery or members of the public who can see our exhibits from the street. We are very proud to have our gallery in the Shoreditch area and are looking forward to our continued good relations with members of the local community.
Fred Mann
Director
12:24:07 PM
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Fred Mann, director of Rhodes+Mann, is being threatened with prosecution over an Annelies Strba photo in his Over Time show. This is a pretty ridiculous situation, covered well by the Guardian and BBC. R+M is one of London's best galleries, and we hope they get a lot more visitors and sales as a result of this needless controversy.
12:14:02 PM
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Includes Carey Young "a businesswoman and artist, who staged her disappearance and invited visitors to use the gallery phone to ring a call centre staffed by 30 agents to track her".
Adrian Searle, reviewing Young's work in the Nothing show in April 2001:
Carey Young's works, meanwhile, lead us into the bureaucratic bindweed of Kafka and Orwell. She has taken over an office at the NGCA, and one is invited to sit at the desk, glare at the pot-plant and ring a call centre, where a bemused operative answers questions about the artist. But only bland questions, not the ones I want to ask. And on one of those office whiteboards, beloved of sales execs, Young has listed those nothing phrases that keep you forever on hold: "I won't keep you a moment; I'm just accessing those details; just bear with me ..."
Interesting; more on art and/in telephony and business to come.
12:05:03 PM
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