{"id":1151,"date":"2008-12-06T07:51:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T14:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/12\/thou-shalt-no-longer-hang-bling\/"},"modified":"2008-12-06T07:51:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T14:51:11","slug":"thou-shalt-no-longer-hang-bling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/06\/thou-shalt-no-longer-hang-bling\/","title":{"rendered":"Thou Shalt No Longer Hang Bling"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Art Newspaper<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Is glitzy art on the way out?<\/p>\n

The changing market may diversify the works being produced<\/p>\n

Judith H. Dobrzynski | 4.12.08 | Daily fair edition\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prices aren\u2019t the only thing different about the art on offer at ABMB this year: tough economic conditions have also influenced what many dealers have brought and what many collectors are buying. Eventually, the times may also affect what art is made.<\/p>\n

In a word\u2014or a few\u2014big, glitzy, high-cost art is out, replaced by smaller, less showy works that don\u2019t require artists or dealers to take out a mortgage to produce, or collectors to build showcase museums to display their treasures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/a>\u201cThe art here is more conservative, more accessible and more residential-compatible,\u201d says Ann Richards Nitze, who both collects and guides other collectors. Advisor Todd Levin agrees: \u201cThat whole big \u2018I\u2019m going to build a museum, here\u2019s the huge coffee-table book\u2019 thing has gone \u2018poof!\u2019 So all those huge installations have disappeared from the fair. Now people are returning to cocooning, so they want domestic-size art that they can live with.\u201d Diamond-dusted works seem to be gone, too, also a casualty of the times. The tone is simply different this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some long-time collectors welcome the trend as good not only for their budgets but also for artists, especially those who\u2019ve struggled to get noticed in the money-driven market of the past several years. Now people may look for these kinds of artists\u2014the young or overlooked. \u201cI\u2019ve heard collectors saying: \u2018I\u2019m going back to my roots of collecting younger artists\u2019,\u201d says Andrea Rosen (C15).<\/p>\n

In fact, this is the kind of market that collectors such as Agnes Gund, president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art, says she likes. \u201cThe froth is gone. There\u2019ll be less blingy art,\u201d she says. \u201cThe market is better for selling less-well-known but important artists like Lynda Benglis. She\u2019s finally coming into her own.<\/p>\n

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