March 29, 2006
Uncanny
In discussing the paparazzo cage and photo-op line at last night's screening of Drawing Restraint 9 at MoMA, I mentioned to an office colleague that I occasionally hear that the last time the contemporary art world was covered this extensively by general-interest magazines was right before the early-'90s market crash. Thirty minutes later, I turned to New York magazine's website to look up the address of a restaurant, and at the top of the page I encounter Marc Spiegler's "Will the Art Market Crash?" This post mentioned a number of recent New Yorker articles (though I neglected to include the Leo Koenig profile published a few months ago). There have been profiles of Raymond Pettibon and the Leipzig School painters in the New York Times Magazine, and every month W features multiple articles about contemporary art and artists. I'm not prognosticating, by any means, but my coincidental experience this morning was uncanny. More later.