Contemporary Street Art and the Art Market
Guiding principles of street art
How do these principles compare to those of other kinds of artists?
The impact of street art
On communities
On politics
On the level and nature of public interaction with art and how the public views art
Notable contemporary street artists
Basquiat
Banksy
Keith Haring
Street art and the art market
Street artists and symbolic capital
Where market interests collide with artistic principles
Street art and dealers, galleries, and museums
How do museum exhibitions affect the value for works included?
Art and accessibility
Does street art uniquely broaden access to the arts, doing more than other forms of art do to render art a public asset and remove it from the sole propriety of the wealthy/elite? How might this process affect its value in the art market?
Working List of References
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mat-gleason/street-art-market-collaps_b_856756.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXGV2H8i2To
http://blogs.forbes.com/tamarawarren/2011/04/29/art-in-the-streets-autos-at-moca/
http://blog.vandalog.com/2010/10/the-art-market-makes-no-sense/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703864204576317260315412944.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704071304576160544164062176.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704681904576313861591809884.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703864204576317260315412944.html#printMode
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704681904576313861591809884.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/travel/09weekend.html
http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/the-best-cities-for-street-art
http://www.artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2570
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704071304576160544164062176.html
This is definitely still very "rough." But here's my start:
National Public Radio in the Contemporary American Art Market
As both a forum for the arts and as an art form unto itself
1. NPR: history and founding principles
2. NPR and the development of cultural and intellectual authority
A. Branding
B. Cultivating a reputation as "non-commercial"
C. NPR and Bourdieu's theory of market disavowal
3. "Highbow" and "lowbrow" cultural dialog and parallels to the art world at large
4. Elements of NPR's art programming
5. NPR's role as a cultural artifact and a cultural liaison in the United States
6. Controversies about NPR
A. Is NPR elitist?
B. Is NPR liberal? Is NPR conservative?
Sources (Developing List)
Npr.org
Mitchell, Jack W. (2005.) Listener Supported: The culture and history of public radio. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.
McCauley, Michael P. (2005.) NPR: The trials and triumphs of National Public Radio. New York: Columbia University Press.
Book Review: "Listener Supported: The culture and history of Public Radio"; "NPR: The trials and triumphs of National Public Radio." Spaulding, Stacy. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 51, no. 3 (2007): 547-548.
Nunberg, Geoffrey. (2001.) The way we talk now: Commentaries on language and culture from NPR's "Fresh Air." Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Henderson, Lisa. "Storyline and the multicultural highbrow: Reading women's culture on National Public Radio." Critical Studies in Media Communication, 16, no. 3 (1999): 329-349.
Velthius, Olav. (2007.) Talking Prices: Symbolic meanings of prices on the market for contemporary art. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Thompson, Don. (2007.) The $12M Stuffed Shark. Palgrave/MacMillan.