Students will visit a gallery and a museum to engage with staff, view the exhibi

Students will visit a gallery and a museum to engage with staff, view the exhibi

Students will visit a gallery and a museum to engage with staff, view the exhibitions, and to observe what is happening in each space (how each space is “coded” socially). Note how the work is installed, the textual references, and record overall experience. In a written report, compare how art is “valued” in a gallery setting with the museum: what’s similar? What is distinctive? And how do writers like Velthuis help “decode” the cultural codes? 8-10 pages
I chose Hauser & Wirth at 22nd st and the Brooklyn Museum as my two examples.
The readings for references Olav Velthuis, Chapter 1, “The Architecture of the Art Market,” in Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005),
Amy Whitaker, Chapter 1, “Markets,” in Economics of Visual Art: Market Practice and Market Resistance. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 15-42
Giulia Cipollini and Roberto Bonomi, “Digitalization of the Art Market,” Withersworldwide, March 7, 2019, https://www.martindale.com/legal-news/article_withers-bergman-llp_2515508.htm
Julia Rothenberg, Chapter 2, “What are the Arts?” in Sociology Looks at the Arts. (New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2014), 17-36.
Please let me know if you need the copies of the references.