Art & economy / art market

Marxist geographer David Harvey opened his 2016 lecture at Harvard with a fact: between 2011 and 2013 China consumed 50 percent more cement than the United States had in the entire twentieth century. In Abstract from the Concrete, he asks why.

In this post-truth era, how does one navigate the endless information available and choose a viable narrative of reality? In How to Know What's Really Happening Glasgow-based writer and curator Francis McKee looks at various techniques for determining verity, from those of spy agencies and whistle-blowers to mystics and scientists.

The publication follows investigations lead by LOOP—a platform dedicated to the study and promotion of the moving image—and questions the act of collecting artists' films and videos.

The second issue features contributions by a range of authors from different fields such as art criticism, investigative journalism, postcapitalist economics, accelerationist philosophy and transhumanist theory. Featuring: Kenny Schachter, Linda Yablonsky, Michael Gross, Paul Mason, Natasha Vita-More, Armen Avanessian, Joseph Walsh, Casey Jane Ellison and Christian Haye.

Helge Mooshammer and Peter Mörtenböck analyze the networked spaces of global informal markets, the cultural frontiers of speculative investments, and recent urban protests, and discuss crucial shifts in the process of collective articulation within today's “crowd economy.”

New monograph: Josephine Meckseper's work exposes the paradoxes of consumer culture through the combination of mass-produced objects with images and artefacts of historical and political events.

Five immersive audiovisual works that combine digitally generated visuals by Kurokawa and sound explorations by Thanasis Kaproulias (working under the moniker Novi_sad). An impressive body of work which explores the aesthetics of data and the visual representation of economic crisis.

The new impact of corporations on both the state and the market as the new paradigm of neoliberalism.

Contribution to a critical theory of artwork's economy and poièsis.

An artist's book based on excerpts and quotes from Matthieu Laurette's interviews, randomly arranged.

An artist's book based on excerpts and quotes from Matthieu Laurette's interviews, randomly arranged, with an original artwork signed by the artist.

The guide of the video and digital art collection.

A documentation on Claude Closky's artwork commissioned by the Paste association as part of the New Patrons program.

Sekula's final work dedicated to labor solidarity in and around the docks.

At the same time an artist's book and a brief historical investigation, Thomas Huber's The Shop Sign reports the birth of a painting, relates the fate of another one, and questions the art market, the transit of works of art and the links between artists, dealers and collectors, all the while Huber plays with interpictoriality the way others would use intertextuality.

An investigation on former director of the IMF and the World Bank Jacques de Groote, sued by the Swiss courts for fraudulent privatization.

The third issue of the annual research book-magazine at the intersection of architecture, art and economy, addresses our urban condition at the age of Anthropocene, with contributions by about forty renowned international contributors (Nicolas Bourriaud, Pierre Huyghe, Yann Moulier-Boutang, Pierre Musso, Neri Oxman, Christian de Portzamparc, Saskia Sassen, Richard Sennett, Jean Viard...), in long and elaborate interviews.

The third issue of the annual research book-magazine at the intersection of architecture, art and economy, addresses our urban condition at the age of Anthropocene (available in English edition).

An experimental novel written by two powerful voices of French experimental poetry. With illustrations by Charles Pennequin.

Soun-Gui Kim engages her collaborators—philosophers Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, and John Cage—in conversation about contemporary art and the relationship of artists to the globalized art world and market, from the perspective of Eastern thought.

This poetical and political text gives a both personal and collective account of Greece's crisis.

A compilation of interviews with thirty-one artists related to questions about the value of attention and spectacle..

A range of international artists engaged in investigating the shifting, viral nature of capitalism.

The second volume of a collection of papers on cognitive capitalism in relation with the conditions of mind and brain in the Information Age.

Complex relationships inside art, culture, political economy, immaterial production, and the public realm today.

Neomaterialism explores the meaning of the world of commodities, and reintroduces various notions of dialectical materialism into the conversation on the subjectivity and vitalism of things.

“Animal Spirits: Fables in the Parlance of Our Times” is an artist's book by Michael Stevenson and Jan Verwoert which expands upon the themes of this earlier document and re-examines them more specifically in the light of our current times.

An introduction to Minsky's seminal theory on financial instability.

In the context of a pervasive and long-standing financial crisis, Joseph Vogl questions the capitalist system, its secrets, its modus operandi, and the way it perpetuates itself. One of the most noteworthy books on the economic crisis in Europe.

A new model of action to invent new modes of art production and exchange by establishing a direct dialogue between the artist, the citizen-commissioner and the cultural mediator, outside the museum and apart from the art market.

Starting from the deep malaise and the violent crisis of confidence in state institutions in modern democracies, this essay analyzes the growing influence and power of the multinational corporations in modern democracies.

The first volume of a collection of papers on cognitive capitalism in relation with the conditions of mind and brain in the Information Age.

The Dakis Joannou Drawing Collection (works by Paul Chan, Sam Durant, Cameron Jamie, Kim Jones, Tom Sachs, Dash Snow, Kelley Walker...).

After Office, the second issue of Stream, addresses the conflicts of the evolution of our work conditions, now greatly modified, with contributions by international thinkers, artists, designers and architects.

"Das Institut" presents a lavishly illustrated review of the productions, exhibitions, and collaborations in which it has been involved over the past three years in the style of a business report.

Various critical approaches under the shape of questioning and the appropriation by artists of the model of the company.

A sociological approach to new practices in public art commissioning.

A new model of action to invent new modes of art production and exchange by establishing a direct dialogue between the artist, the citizen-commissioner and the cultural mediator, outside the museum and apart from the art market (available in English edition).

Artist's book: about 180 plates, portrays a collectivity, gathered in its different human manifestations, in the infinite variety of the characters and typologies that only apparently seem fantastical characters.

Tristan Trémeau investigates the institutional and market developments in the art word, and calls for the regeneration of art criticism.

A pioneering and masterly study of the history of art markets in Italy (covering the fields of painting and scultpure, but also architecture, applied arts and performing arts), which demonstrates the possibility of an economic history of art linking social or political mechanisms and symbolic or patrimonial issues.

This collective essay examines the crossroads between creation and business through various analyzes and case studies on Marcel Duchamp, Bertrand Lavier and the Brancusi trial.