Simococo
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April 2007
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I THINK THE STREET ART MARKET IS DEAD. DO YOU?, by Simococo on Jul 27, 2018 12:21:47 GMT 1, The death of rampant flipping caused the so called death of the "market" in many peoples eyes. The movement itself is still absolutely massive in terms of overall popularity and I can't find another art movement over the last century that reached so many.
That's not to say it hasn't lost it's spontaneity and the amount of derivative work out there has taken the shine off particularly for people who started collecting 10 - 15 years ago
The death of rampant flipping caused the so called death of the "market" in many peoples eyes. The movement itself is still absolutely massive in terms of overall popularity and I can't find another art movement over the last century that reached so many.
That's not to say it hasn't lost it's spontaneity and the amount of derivative work out there has taken the shine off particularly for people who started collecting 10 - 15 years ago
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I THINK THE STREET ART MARKET IS DEAD. DO YOU?, by Peter Bengtsen on Jul 27, 2018 12:53:16 GMT 1, I don't want to wade into the debate about the urban art market and which artists' work will be valuable long-term.
However, I do want to make the point that it is important not to conflate - as some of the previous posts on this thread seem to do - the urban art market / the current position of specific artists on that market with the standing of the street art movement as a whole and that of specific artists in "art history".
I began writing about street art as a student more than twelve years ago. In the time that has passed since then, I have seen a significant rise in the number of researchers (art historians as well as scholars from other fields) who are writing about various aspects of the topic - including "urban art" (understood here as the commercial production of artists who also create work in the street or otherwise are associated with the street art world). The number of academic (and popular) publications on street art has similarly increased.
Whether street art will be a part of "art history" is not a question: it already is.
The work has been extensively documented and written about over the past 10-15 years, and judging by the number of emails I am receiving from researchers, PhD candidates and students from around the world, it will continue to be discussed academically for a long time to come.
I don't want to wade into the debate about the urban art market and which artists' work will be valuable long-term.
However, I do want to make the point that it is important not to conflate - as some of the previous posts on this thread seem to do - the urban art market / the current position of specific artists on that market with the standing of the street art movement as a whole and that of specific artists in "art history".
I began writing about street art as a student more than twelve years ago. In the time that has passed since then, I have seen a significant rise in the number of researchers (art historians as well as scholars from other fields) who are writing about various aspects of the topic - including "urban art" (understood here as the commercial production of artists who also create work in the street or otherwise are associated with the street art world). The number of academic (and popular) publications on street art has similarly increased.
Whether street art will be a part of "art history" is not a question: it already is.
The work has been extensively documented and written about over the past 10-15 years, and judging by the number of emails I am receiving from researchers, PhD candidates and students from around the world, it will continue to be discussed academically for a long time to come.
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moron
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September 2017
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I THINK THE STREET ART MARKET IS DEAD. DO YOU?, by moron on Jul 29, 2018 17:05:11 GMT 1, I don't want to wade into the debate about the urban art market and which artists' work will be valuable long-term.
However, I do want to make the point that it is important not to conflate - as some of the previous posts on this thread seem to do - the urban art market / the current position of specific artists on that market with the standing of the street art movement as a whole and that of specific artists in "art history".
I began writing about street art as a student more than twelve years ago. In the time that has passed since then, I have seen a significant rise in the number of researchers (art historians as well as scholars from other fields) who are writing about various aspects of the topic - including "urban art" (understood here as the commercial production of artists who also create work in the street or otherwise are associated with the street art world). The number of academic (and popular) publications on street art has similarly increased.
Whether street art will be a part of "art history" is not a question: it already is.
The work has been extensively documented and written about over the past 10-15 years, and judging by the number of emails I am receiving from researchers, PhD candidates and students from around the world, it will continue to be discussed academically for a long time to come.
What is street art ?
Illegal art on the streets or art made by professional muralists?
I don't want to wade into the debate about the urban art market and which artists' work will be valuable long-term.
However, I do want to make the point that it is important not to conflate - as some of the previous posts on this thread seem to do - the urban art market / the current position of specific artists on that market with the standing of the street art movement as a whole and that of specific artists in "art history".
I began writing about street art as a student more than twelve years ago. In the time that has passed since then, I have seen a significant rise in the number of researchers (art historians as well as scholars from other fields) who are writing about various aspects of the topic - including "urban art" (understood here as the commercial production of artists who also create work in the street or otherwise are associated with the street art world). The number of academic (and popular) publications on street art has similarly increased.
Whether street art will be a part of "art history" is not a question: it already is.
The work has been extensively documented and written about over the past 10-15 years, and judging by the number of emails I am receiving from researchers, PhD candidates and students from around the world, it will continue to be discussed academically for a long time to come.
What is street art ? Illegal art on the streets or art made by professional muralists?
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