Between headline auction lots and art fair admission fees, it’s been an expensive week in the artworld:
- So, The Scream provokes an outcry. You can see the final suave, diabolical moments of its public appearance in this Telegraph video
- But do high prices merely advertise the auction system itself? Jerry Saltz thinks so and hates giving works of art numbers (thanks to @thebenstreet for both links)
- Charlie Finch meanwhile argues that money makes artworks safe, “hiding the death nautilus in an ocean of dollarsâ€. Yikes.
- More from the righteous anger department. Paddy Johnson points out that so-called discussions at Frieze sidestep elephants in the room (via @cmonstah).
- Over on the Arts Desk, Fisun Guner reviews the shortlist for the Turner Prize and asks the very good question: why no Marcus Coates?
- The Guardian invited Hans Ulrich Obrist to write the obit for David Weiss; this includes a good overview of the career of Fischli/Weiss.
- We Make Money Not Art meanwhile write up an immortal artwork on its way to the Wellcome Collection. This installation looks like a must see.
- Thanks to @merci-remi for drawing twitter’s attention to his laugh a minute tumblr feed, Life in Art Galleries.
- Listen to a radio broadcast in which David Shrigley suggests what the man on the Glaswegian streets would make of Anish Kapoor.
- The final link this week was a news event in itself. John Peel’s record collection is being digitally catalogued. Visit Peel Acres here.