Seven Days... Chapter 3: THE FAIR

ten statements i enjoyed reading and felt compelled to share:

1. (p.104) "The mount of art in the world is a bit depressing. The worst of it looks like art, but it's not. It is stuff cynically made for a certain kind of collector."

2. (p.103) "A great dealer does a good job for the collector, but a great job for artists. A great advisor does good job for the artists but a great job for the collector."

3. (p.100) "He [Teiger] enjoys being a player in the power game of art, prticularly at this level, where patronage can have an effect on public consciousness...'My goal is to acquire work that great museums letch after.'"

4. (p.99) [Teiger]" I'm just an ordinary rich person....I don't know if I have a collection. I have a load of stuff."

5. (p.97) To be a good dealer- "You have to have an eye- a savantish ability to recognize work that is symptomatic of an artist with real intelligence, originality, and drive."

6. (p.94) "One of Baldessari's oft-repeated jokes is that an artist entering an art fair is like a teenager barging into his parents' room while they're having sex. 'At fairs, gllerists are reduced to merchants, a role in which they'd rather not be seen by their artists. The alarmed expressions on the parents' faces say,'what re you doing here!'"

7. (p.91) [The two paragraphs on the page discuss the various types of gallerists, dealers, speculators, and trawlers]

8. (p.85) On being at the fair: "It's like being whore in Amsterdam," she says. "You're trapped in these little rooms nd there is no privacy whatsoever."

9. (p.84) On Barbara Gldstone: "An art collector once told me, 'Barbara is one of my compass points. There is north, south, east, and Barbara."

10. (p.79) "It is a joy to snoop around an art fair before the feeding frenzy begins."