Dave Hickey Podcast

Posted by John Pedlow

During this podcast Dave Hickey touched on a couple of points that intrigued me. First that some people are getting into the art business for the wrong reasons such as money and secondly that art dealers are creating false values for art. To me if you enter the art world you should be doing it because you love art, the money should just be something that you get should your work be good enough. It is like sports to me, most athletes play sports because it is something that they love to do. The money that professionals get comes along because they happen to be the best in their business, but it is not the reason they start playing sports. The same should be true for artists, be an artist because you love art. The second point about art dealers really bothers me because it does not seem that they care about art what so ever. They are just in the business to get rich and end up driving up the prices of art for their benefit and not because the art is actually worth it. This is wrong and makes it so some people can not afford art that they like and museums, as was described in Mona Lisa's Curse, are unable to purchase art because of the astronomical prices. To me this is completely wrong and seems slimy.