What is the “art market”? Who are the key art dealers and gallerists? Which are the most influential cultural institutions and financial players? Finally, and perhaps most importantly, how do creative individuals – artists, designers, architects, writers – engage, challenge, or even subvert the status quo of the art market? This course is focused on developing students’ understandings of key art market terminology, as well as the roles and institutions that make up the “art market.” Course units focus on dealers and gallerists, auction houses and cultural institutions, philanthropic titans and artistic provocateurs – some unabashedly successful, others decidedly critical – that collectively make up and continually redefine what we call the “art market.” Through primary, textbook-style readings, this course examines key art market terminology. These readings are supplemented by hands-on encounters with the institutions and activities that make up the art market at the local, national, and global levels. To these ends, course activities include readings, video tutorials, real and fictional narrative accounts, and engagement with some of the San Francisco Bay Area’s most established, respected art market movers and shakers.Philosophy and Critical Theory (PHCRT) courses focus on developing critical reading and thinking skills, with an emphasis on learning to frame and explore meaningful questions. Students consider multiple perspectives and claims in the process of formulating independent, well-founded opinions.

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