Lucas Samaras Plays Hard to Get
Arne Glimcher is the founder and chairman of the PaceWildenstein art gallery. He is also a published author, a film producer and a director, whose pictures include The Mambo Kings, Gorillas in the Mist, and Picasso & Braque Go to the Movies.
American Artist Lucas Samaras is representing his native Greece at this year's Biennale. In this intimate interview with his longtime art dealer Arne Glimcher, Samaras discusses why he doesn't want to go to Venice, getting famous artists to pose nude for him, and what he's working on next.
Art's New Price Hype
Arne Glimcher is the founder and chairman of the PaceWildenstein art gallery. He is also a published author, a film producer and a director, whose pictures include The Mambo Kings, Gorillas in the Mist, and Picasso & Braque Go to the Movies.
As the second week of spring art auctions begins today, Arne Glimcher wonders whether the Sotheby's and Christie's have overestimated the market.
Re-Framing the Art Market
Judith H. Dobrzynski, formerly a reporter and a senior editor at The New York Times and at BusinessWeek, as well as a senior executive at CNBC, is a writer based in New York. She blogs about the arts at www.artsjournal.com/realcleararts.
At the 21st-annual Art Show in New York, purchases have slowed, as gallerists try to make artwork precious again-but not overpriced. Judith H. Dobrzynski reports.
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