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Simon Frith describes three art worlds present in the music industry: the art music world, folk music world, and commercial music world.

Howard S. Becker describes it as "the network of people whose cooperative activity, organized via their joint knowledge of conventional means of doing things, produce(s) the kind of art works that art world is noted for" (Becker, 1982).


Jerry Saltz

Saltz has cited Manny Farber's "termite art" and Joan Didion's "Babylon" as well as other wide ranging systemic metaphors for the art world.

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed

Cornwell's book was released to much controversy, especially within the British art world, where Sickert's work is admired, and also among “Ripperologists,” who dispute her research methods and conclusions.


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A. M. Hanson

An audio/visual book, featuring collaborations between artists and musicians, We Love You (various / Booth Clibborn, Candy Records 1998) shows his print work (of Richard Torry's studio space), alongside that of more established art world figures, such as Gilbert & George, Marc Quinn and Tracey Emin (credits appear as Alex Mark Hanson called Simon).

Alan Russell-Cowan

He stars in the documentary My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures, which covers six years of his life and focuses on the relationship between his diagnosis as a paranoid schizophrenic and his struggle to find success in the art world.

Alzek Misheff

He is well known in the international art world for the project Swimming Across The Atlantic, which was executed in the swimming pool of the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 in 1982 while traveling on the route between London and New York.

Berta Taracena

She has worked with other notables in Mexico’s art world such as Fernando Gamboa.

Biennial

Biennale, a term used within the art world to describe an international manifestation of contemporary art, stemming from the use of the phrase for the Venice Biennale.

Bob Justin

At this time Justin’s work also led him to be introduced to renowned sculptor Isaac Witkin, among other luminaries in the art world.

Clarence Joseph Bulliet

After a brief return to newspaper journalism in Louisville, Kentucky, Bulliet moved to Chicago to edit Magazine of the Art World, a weekly periodical published by the Chicago Evening Post.

Demetrios Galanis

In May 2008, one of three Galanis paintings titled Lady in White was removed from an auction scheduled for 20 May in Bonhams' Greek Sale as doubts over the authenticity of the piece caused a stir in the art world.

Dora Maar

Towards the end of her life, she renounced her earlier association with Surrealism, albeit staying involved in the art world through some exchanges with upcoming artists, as she did with Patrice Stellest while he defined the principles of the Trans Nature Art movement.

Elizabeth Jones

When Frank Gasparro retired in 1981 after 16 years as chief engraver, friends in the art world and in Washington, D.C., urged her to apply.

Enrique Riveros

As a teenager he traveled to Paris in 1922 to study agronomy, but promptly and against his family's, became part of the art world and the historical avant-garde film that dominated the European scene and Paris, mingling with: Picasso, Modigliani, ManRay, Gertrude Stein, Coco Chanel, Buñuel, Lee Miller, the Viscount de Noailles, among others, formed the social circle that unfolded for ten years and where he developed his prodigious acting career.

Grey Organisation

GO’s recognition begun to grow outside of the art world when Lynne Franks launched the Grey Organisation into the 1980s' world of PR; modelling for Katherine Hamnett at The Albert Hall and Yohji Yamamoto in Paris; supporting Red Wedge; meeting Neil Kinnock at the Houses of Parliament; and promoting Swatch watches.

Hashtagclass

Hrag Vartanian of the blogazine Hyperallegic invited visitors to reveal who owes them money in an event called "$ecrets of the New York Art World."

Hasnat Mehmood

In it, Hasnat copied the works of thirteen artists who work in this medium - Shahzia Sikander is perhaps the best-known practitioner of miniature painting in the global contemporary art world.

Hennessy Youngman

This sort of 'underdog in the art world' characterization can be seen in the work of video artist of Alex Bag or motion pictures such as the biopic Basquiat or the art world satire (Untitled).

Heys USA Inc.

In 2011, expanded into the art world with a licensing agreement with 3D Pop artist, Charles Fazzino.

Ikuma Arishima

In 1914, he also translated Umberto Boccioni's Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture from the Italian into Japan, thus introducing the Futurism movement to the Japanese modern art world.

Jerry Saltz

His humor, irreverence, self-deprecation and volubility have earned him the designation as the Rodney Dangerfield of the art world.

Jill Johnston

During the late 1960s Deborah Jowitt joined the paper and wrote a regular dance column, while Johnston's dance column became a kind of weekly diary, chronicling her adventures in the New York art world.

Kutluğ Ataman

Ataman entered the art world first in 1997 when he took part in the 5th International Istanbul Biennial where he presented "kutluğ ataman's semiha b. unplugged" a long-form documentary of the opera diva Semiha Berksoy.

Maxence Cyrin

Cyrin also works regularly for the fashion industry with brands like Lanvin, Chanel, or Margiela, and has participated in projects in the contemporary art world.

Michael Alan

He's also been featured in well over 200 group shows, including "10 x 10 Decade End" at Whitebox, Art Basel Miami, "Exhibitionists Both" at Jonathan Schorr, "Object Affection" at BOFFO Arts, and the Auction for Art World Digest at Rare Gallery.

Mikhail Natarevich

Mikhail Davidovich Natarevich was born September 29, 1907, in Vitebsk, a small Belarusian town, has gone down in the history of the 20th-century art world with Chagall and Malevich.

Nicole Craig

She has had several successful art exhibitions, and is known throughout the art world for her interesting uses of art to mirror deities and real life situations with a style that is uniquely her own.This style gained her a spot on the Absolut Vodka, Absolut Connections art tour through the Caribbean and Latin America

Pinta Art Show

Based in New York City, the art fair also travels to London, allowing visitors, galleries, artists, collectors, curators, and cultural institutions to strengthen their existing knowledge and develop new connections with the Latin American art world.

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I

Some in the art world criticized the heirs' decision to sell all of the restituted paintings: specifically, New York Times chief art critic Michael Kimmelman described the heirs as "cashing in," and thus transforming a "story about justice and redemption after the Holocaust" into "yet another tale of the crazy, intoxicating art market."

Post-expressionism

Post-expressionism is a term coined by the German art critic Franz Roh to describe a variety of movements in the post-war art world which were influenced by expressionism but defined themselves through rejecting its aesthetic.

Rob Pruitt

Pieces from this time dealt with his exclusion from the art world; his first sculpture at Gavin Brown’s enterprise was an Evian fountain, which, as Mia Fineman points out, is related to baptism and rebirth.

Scarab Club

Since then, signing the beam has become a ceremonial honor, and the autographs of art world luminaries such as John Sloan, Diego Rivera, Pablo Davis, Marcel Duchamp, Norman Rockwell, and John Sinclair grace the beams.

Serge Joyal

In recent years, he has used his knowledge of the art world and his influence on the Senate and the government to get Parliament to assemble a collection of original portraits of the kings of France for the period during which Canada was first explored and colonized by France.

Sheila Pepe

Pepe's break into the art world began with inclusion into a 1996 group exhibition of Boston Area Artists at Rose Art Museum and in "Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late 20th Century Art" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in Boston in 1997.

Stass Paraskos

Despite luminaries of the art world speaking in Paraskos's defence, including Sir Herbert Read and Norbert Lynton, and messages of support from Britain's Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, Paraskos lost the trial and was fined five pounds.

William Powhida

New York Magazine art critic Jerry Saltz described the drawing as "a great big art world stink bomb" and a much needed institutional critique.