BA students Art Market field trip

Hello All,

the undergraduate students (from all of our 4 UG programmes, not just BA Art History and Museum Studies) went on an Art Market field trip to London last week. There were so many of them I had to divide them into 3 groups! Anyway, I think we had a great time, wandering (purposefully of course), the area around St James's and Bond Street...where many businesses in the art world congregate - for interesting historical reasons (you'll need to do the Art Market course to find out!)......

Here is one of the student groups outside Christie's Auctioneers, King Street rooms....

Students at Christie's Auctioneers

We also took in a number of art dealerships, including Hauser & Wirth, White Cube, Fine Art Society and Marlborough Fine Art (who were very generous with their time...).....
  It'll be same again next year, for a new bunch of Art Market student enthusiasts!
Mark

Merchants of Modernism talk by Mark

Hope those of you involved in the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery displays have recovered from all the relentless hard work? Congratulations again on your achievement!

Coming soon, a free talk that might interest students of Museum Studies...by one of your favourite lecturers!


'Merchants of Modernism: Dealers, Exhibitions and the promotion of the avant-garde, 1900-1939' - Talk by Dr. Mark Westgarth
Saturday, 12 November 2011, 3pm

The rise in the interest in the avant-garde is a story that mirrors the evolving conditions of modernity in the early 20th century. New kinds of dealers and new commercial art galleries disseminated avant-garde artworks to a metropolitan public through innovative exhibition strategies, new marketing techniques and the professional practices of the modern art dealer. Focusing on some of the most significant art dealers in the period, including Paul Durand-Ruel and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, and some high profile exhibitions at galleries such as Grafton Galleries, Reid & Lefevre, Leicester Galleries, this introductory talk maps the evolution of the modern art market at a critical moment in its development.

Free event, all welcome. No booking necessary.

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The London Art Market

Hi All,
me a just a few of the undergrads went on a field trip to London on Wednesday this week, as part of the level 3 module 'The Art Market: moments, methodologies and meanings'. Here they are outside of Sotheby's in Bond Street....we visited quite a few 'spaces and places' associated with the art market...including some major dealerships such as Marlborough Fine Art, Richard Green (who was packing off for the art fair in Maastricht), Mallet (the famous furniture and dec art dealers) and, of course, White Cube. We also took in an auction sale at Bonhams, Bond Street, and whilst there were'nt any spectacular prices at the sale, the students did see the intense social processes at work in these 'Tournaments of Value' (as cultural theorists call such events).
Anyway, more anon on the relationships between art market and the museum....
Mark

'Questions of Collecting' talks resume...and a request for docents!

Good to see such a lively blog for the students in Art Gallery and Museum Studies! Of course, I've been impressed with the engagement of the students and staff on this course for some time.

Our jointly-organised series of talks 'Questions of Collecting' shows this well. After a hiatus over the winter holidays, we're picking up where we left off: Helen Rees Leahy (Director of the Centre for Museology at the University of Manchester) will be giving her talk '"All the Finest": Furnishing the Frick, 1914-15' at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery tomorrow evening, from 6pm. Next month, we welcome our very own Mark Westgarth to the stage! He'll be giving a talk entitled '"A contest between two pairs of eyes": dealers and collectors' on 24 March, from 6pm. The Gallery will remain open until 8pm after the talks, so it's also a great opportunity to see the collection and exhibition of new work by Trevor Bell after hours. I hope to see many of you tomorrow at the Gallery.

Finally, I'd like to drop in a request to any students wishing to get involved in the Gallery as student docents. This would involve researching and delivering short (1/2 hour) gallery talks to our visitors on a Wednesday lunch hour. We currently offer free lunchtime talks on the current exhibition, most Wednesdays from 1-1:30, but we'd like to offer talks on works in the collection as well. If you'd be interested in developing your research and public speaking skills by delivering one of these talks, please feel free to email me directly to express your interest: l.bloom@leeds.ac.uk.