The Great Contemporary Art Bubble

[Kaycy is tanning]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gth8_3msnIk

This documentary is much much longer in reality, it goes on about who created the bubble of abstract and contemporary Art, Sotheby was a huge player in this. If anyone wants I'll see if I can find the full epi.

[DeadlyFreeze]

Damn UK'ers get all the good stuff. Do post it if you can find it, looks interesting.

[Kaycy is tanning]

Damn UK'ers get all the good stuff. Do post it if you can find it, looks interesting.

Nod, BBC makes good episods, can't find the full atm, but I'll try to explain it since I saw it on TV (from Belgium).

---> ART is an investment for those brokers and for very rich people, it's not art, it goes way beyond that

---> The art becomes value, if you invest in something, you want it to stay valuable

---> Economic crisis.....what do you?!....all your art, personal, in bank, from banks, from brokers.. everything is ready to lose it's value, so what do you do, what does the biggest Auction house in the world, Sotheby do.

---> You keep buying. You keep the value for art high. Sotheby payed people to buy art, deals were made to make sure paintings from Andy Warhol sold at full price, banks helped, brokers helped, rich people, firms, all helped.

---> The art itself didn't matter, no one cared what was on the painting, as long as it sold and as long as Andy Warhol and everyone else kept on making painting so the bubble didn't burst.

The episode shows the people getting nervous going into Sothebys, because they know if no one buys anymore, the market crashes and all the painting will lose their value and crash. Some painting aren't painting anymore they explain, they're just pots where rich people keep their money in, and the artwork doesn't decide the price, the people do, it's a game to avoid crisis in some way, as long as it lasts....

[Flake]

Damn UK'ers get all the good stuff.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ml5dd/A_Portrait_of_Scotland/

This one was pretty good, if you can bounce it of a TOR node in the UK, otherwise I think Iplayer will pout at you and refuse to play..

Beeb America? Dunno what you actually get access to over there..Probably repeats of Top Gear and Eastenders...

[Jasonwclark]

Hmmm no dice.

It's too bad the BBC doesn't just offer a premium to watch online. I'd pay $10 a month for the UK shows.

[B u r l]

Yep, at least we get fun programs.

Some other good ones off the top of my head that might be worth tracking down:

The Great Chinese Art Revolution
Matt's Old Masters
Simon Schamas power of art

There are a couple of others I can't remember yet... :dur:

[noodlesvsrice]

Can anyone tell me the end quote of the documentary and the name of whoever said it... I was something about there, being too much art in the world.

Thanks :)