Are art galleries dinosaurs on the way to extinction?

[dsphotog]

Dying has always been a good business plan for artists.

Now, THAT is a great quote!
Accurate too.

[Mark Sawyer]

Dying has always been a good business plan for artists.

It's the last thing on my bucket list...

[Hugo Zhang]

Let's change this a bit:

Dying has always been a good business plan for artists' beneficiaries.

[Tin Can]

+1.

Let's change this a bit:

Dying has always been a good business plan for artists' beneficiaries.

[paulr]

Contrast that with Woody Allen: "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying."

[dsphotog]

Back to the topic....
Rodney Lowe's high profile gallery in San Francisco also closed this year.
It was in a super high tourist traffic area (Pier 29).
The rent alone had to be astronomical.

[Mark Sawyer]

Incidentally...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/19/ar...-takeover.html

[paulr]

Incidentally...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/19/ar...-takeover.html

This is a common pattern for museums that have tried to save themselves by investing in facilities instead of art.

See this recent story, and ponder if the even bigger problem might be the bozo they put in charge. His problem isn't that he doesn't know anything about art; it's that he couldn't care less.

(I'm not trying to suggest that Delaware's story is typical. I've never seen anything quite this bad).