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The institutions of contemporary art
Contemporary art is exhibited by commercial contemporary art galleries, private collectors, corporations, publicly funded arts organizations, contemporary art museums or by artists themselves in artist-run spaces. Contemporary artists are supported by grants, awards and prizes as well as by direct sales of their work.
There are close relationships between publicly funded contemporary
art organisations and the commercial sector. For instance, in Britain a
handful of dealers represent the artists featured in leading publicly
funded contemporary art museums.[1]
Individual collectors can wield considerable influence. Charles Saatchi has dominated the contemporary art market in Britain since the 1980s; the subtitle of the 1999 book Young British Artists: The Saatchi Decade uses of the name of the private collector to define an entire decade of contemporary art production.[2]
Corporations have attempted to integrate themselves into the
contemporary art world: exhibiting contemporary art within their
premises, organising and sponsoring contemporary art awards and
building up extensive collections.[3]
The institutions of art have been criticised for regulating what is designated as contemporary art. Outsider art,
for instance, is literally contemporary art, in that it is produced in
the present day. However, it is not considered so because the artists
are self-taught and are assumed to be working outside of an art
historical context.[4]
Craft activities, such as textile design, are also excluded from the
realm of contemporary art, despite large audiences for exhibitions.[5]
Attention is drawn to the way that craft objects must subscribe to
particular values in order to be admitted. "A ceramic object that is
intended as a subversive comment on the nature of beauty is more likely
to fit the definition of contemporary art than one that is simply
beautiful."[6]
At any one time a particular place or group of artists can have a
strong influence on globally produced contemporary art; for instance
New York artists in the 1980s.[7]
[edit] Public attitudes
Contemporary art can sometimes seem at odds with a public that does not feel that art and its institutions share its values.[8]
In Britain in the 1990s contemporary art became a part of popular
culture, with artists becoming stars, but this did not lead to a hoped
for "cultural utopia".[9]
[edit] Concerns
A common concern since the early part of the 20th century is the question of what constitutes art. This concern can be seen running through the "modern" and "postmodern" periods. The concept of avant-garde[10]
may come into play in determining what art is taken notice of by
galleries, museums, and collectors. Serious art is ultimately
exceedingly difficult to distinguish definitively from art that falls
short of that designation.
[edit] Contemporary art prizes
Some competitions, awards and prizes in contemporary art are
[edit] History
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