Corporate Heresies, Technology Rants, Personal Observations
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Friday, May 06, 2005 supply and demand in a world of archived art You can imagine a company that acts as a broker between small or medium-sized museums and a demand for short-term possession of pieces of art. Talk to museum curators; they'll often tell you they have far more work stored in archives than is possible to display. Sometimes what's stored in the vaults are secondary - relative to specific shows - pieces of work. For example, in a local museum's recent display of maps of California made by the gold-miners of the 1840s and 50s, for every map displayed there were hundreds of less significant pieces: maps of what would later become small towns, diaries and letters of the '49-ers,' newspapers and saloon artifacts... While a great deal of what's archived by museums has been donated by foundations and trusts with specific directions on how or whether material can be shown, a much larger percentage of stored material is without such constraints. In the case of the local museum's collections of Gold Rush memorabilia, almost all could be displayed pretty much anywhere. In this specific case, the local museum could also consider selling off some of its duplicate pieces. Museums would typically love to be able to share some of their material with larger audiences. They'd also like to recoup some of the costs involved in keeping large art archives. On the other side of the equation is the demand for art -- at the right price. Corporations decorate their halls with art: their headquarter lobbies are places demonstrating committment to the arts. Hi-end decorators often use rented artwork in showrooms of their work. Real estate companies 'stage' residential houses: at the multimillion dollar level of home, one could easily see the value of including memorable art. What's missing is a unified marketplace where buyers (or - rentors) can view a large selection of what's available. UberArt.net is doing this in Australia. My hunch is that it can be done here. posted by Tom | 6:38 PM |
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