{"id":1564,"date":"2010-02-20T00:27:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T08:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/02\/the_fate_of_art\/"},"modified":"2010-02-20T00:27:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T08:27:25","slug":"the_fate_of_art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/02\/the_fate_of_art.html","title":{"rendered":"The fate of art &#8211; two incidents from Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Greg Kucera was poking around the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.re-store.org\/index.php\">ReStore <\/a>and found Timothy Brown&#8217;s installation from the now defunct Crawl Space, titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crawlspacegallery.com\/v2\/archive\/placesetting\/\"><i>Place\/Setting<\/i><\/a>. It appeared at the ReStore without attribution. (If anyone needed a dining set suspended in resin, that was their lucky day.) More recently, artist (and Kucera employee) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrimoreproject.com\/lp\/Artists\/Pages\/Matt_Browning.html\">Matt Browning<\/a> was looking through a local Goodwill and found a framed photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregkucera.com\/engman.htm\">Chris Engman<\/a> in pristine shape. The price? $5.<\/p>\n<p>Engman is represented by Kucera, where the artist&#8217;s early photos, such as the found one, typically sell in the $1,200-$1,600 range. Turns out that Engman made only two prints of the image in question. One he gave to a friend, who still has it. The other he donated to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artisttrust.org\/\">Artist Trust<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>What happened after that?&nbsp; Artist Trust is no more responsible for the art it sells than galleries are. In the case of Engman&#8217;s print, it got lucky. Its new owner is not just pleased to have found an Engman in his price range, he is not likely to mistreat the work of a peer. <\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Artist Trust <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artisttrustauction.org\/\">auction<\/a> takes place Saturday night. Choosing one artist out of the hundreds donating their work, I hope whoever buys Dawn Cerny&#8217;s <i>We Get High (Not Very)<\/i>&nbsp; (19&#8243; x 24&#8243;,<br \/>\nMuslin, felt, silk) values it enough to take care of it. The prospect of it popping up at Goodwill in a banners&#8217; box leaves me anything but high. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dawmcernyrainer.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/dawmcernyrainer.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"298\" width=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Greg Kucera was poking around the ReStore and found Timothy Brown&#8217;s installation from the now defunct Crawl Space, titled Place\/Setting. It appeared at the ReStore without attribution. (If anyone needed a dining set suspended in resin, that was their lucky day.) More recently, artist (and Kucera employee) Matt Browning was looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}