DAY 15 Today is Tuesday, June 21,st and we consider the creation of the "art district," and its role in the art market. The readings
focus on the move of New York's contemporary art district from SoHo to Chelsea at the end of the twentieth century. In your response,
discuss either SoHo or Chelsea and the factors that went into making or dismantling each neighborhood as an art district. Many art
world players thought that SoHo, as a contemporary art magnet, would last forever. Today, the feeling about Chelsea is the same,
specially with speculators like the Whitney Museum of American Art, which plans to move from the Upper East Side to Chelsea in a new
uilding by 2015. But many remember the Guggenheim's ill-fated expansion to SoHo. By the time that satellite exhibition space closed,
SoHo galleries had begun their exodus north and westward to Chelsea. You might also site other examples of art districts in other cities
or countries.
Readings
New York City: Soho, Lower East Side
A Gallerist Turned Developer - New York Times.pdf
Read: Fred A. Bernstein, "A Gallerist Turned Developer," the New York Times, March 18, 2007.
New York City: Chelsea and Contemporary Art
Read: David Halle and Elizabeth Tiso, "Contemporary Art: A 'Global and Local Perspective via New York's Chelsea District," in UCLA, On-Line Working Paper Series, California Center for Population Research, 2007
No Next Chelsea
Read: Saltz, Jerry. "No Next Chelsea," in Modern Painters, October 2006.
Art, Bohemia and Economic Development
Read: Elizabeth Currid, "Bohemia as Subculture; "Bohemia" as Industry: Art, Culture and Economic Development," in Journal of Planning Literature, 23, 368-383.{color}
The Highline!
Read: Lisa Chamberlain, "Open Space Overhead," in Planning, March 2006.
Geography of Galleries in NYC
Recommended Reading: Harvey Molotch and Mark Treskon, "Changing Art: Soho, Chelsea and the Dynamic Geography of Galleries in New York City," inInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 33.2, June 2009, pp 517-531.
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