Articles
Queuebism. Are Blockbuster Exhibitions damaging Art? Spears WMS magazine, Issue No. 23, November/December 2011.
Even if reports of the death of the blockbuster exhibition are somewhat exaggerated, it’s true that galleries are having to change the way they stage big shows, says Ivan Lindsay OVER THE SUMMER, the National Gallery and Royal Academy in London announced their autumn exhibitions, Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan
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- Queuebism. Are Blockbuster Exhibitions damaging Art? Spears WMS magazine, Issue No. 23, November/December 2011.
- What is a masterpiece? Spears WMS Autumn 2011
- The Canary in the mineshaft – Spears WMS No. 21, July/August 2011
- Russian Bears appear out of Hibernation – Spears WMS No. 20, May/June 2011
- Go figure – Is art a hedge against inflation? Spears WMS
- When the Going gets Toff – Spears WMS magazine No. 17
- Bid Farewell – The rise in private art sales, Spears WMS, Issue No.16, Summer 2010.
Essays
In order to have taste, it is not enough to see and to know what is beautiful in a given work. One must feel beauty and be moved by it. It is not even enough to feel, to be moved in a vague way: It is essential to discern the different shades of feeling. Nothing
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Picture Cataloguing Until about 40 years ago cataloguing consisted of the compilation of information about a work of art (as opposed to the catalogue raisonne which involved bringing together all the known information about an individual artist). The process of cataloguing was never deemed to require a specific skill other than the (now rare) ability
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Articles
Queuebism. Are Blockbuster Exhibitions damaging Art? Spears WMS magazine, Issue No. 23, November/December 2011. Even if reports of the death of the blockbuster exhibition are somewhat exaggerated, it’s true that galleries are having to change the way they stage big shows, says Ivan Lindsay OVER THE SUMMER, the National Gallery and Royal Academy in London announced their autumn exhibitions, Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan
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When Spear’s hosted a debate on what makes a masterpiece, none of the participants could agree. Ivan Lindsay was there — but now he has the floor to himself AT THE MASTERPIECE Fair in London, Spear’s organised a breakfast panel to discuss ‘What is a Masterpiece?’ The discussion, at Le Caprice in the Masterpiece
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Essays
Reconceiving Connoisseurship by Carol Strone, Fine Art Connoisseurship magazine, Spring 2010. In order to have taste, it is not enough to see and to know what is beautiful in a given work. One must feel beauty and be moved by it. It is not even enough to feel, to be moved in a vague way: It is essential to discern the different shades of feeling. Nothing
[continue reading...]
Picture Cataloguing Until about 40 years ago cataloguing consisted of the compilation of information about a work of art (as opposed to the catalogue raisonne which involved bringing together all the known information about an individual artist). The process of cataloguing was never deemed to require a specific skill other than the (now rare) ability
[continue reading...]