{"id":108,"date":"2009-04-03T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2009-04-03T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T09:51:00","slug":"fontana-mix-for-early-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Fontana Mix for early April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">UBS Closes Art  Advising Unit in Basel &#8211; from Artforum.com<\/span><br \/>Carolyn Bandel reports for Bloomberg that UBS AG, the world\u2019s largest wealth manager, will close a division that advises Swiss clients on investing in art. The unit offered research on art-market prices, provenance verification, and advice on buying artworks to clients and visitors at the annual Art Basel art fair. UBS\u2019s decision to shut the division won\u2019t affect its sponsorship of the event, which will only expire in 2011, according to the bank. \u201cWe have recently signed a sponsorship agreement for several years,\u201d said Maike Cruse, a spokeswoman for Art Basel. \u201cThere won\u2019t be any impact from this on us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Worth Seeing<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jaq Chartier<\/span>, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Downtime<\/span><\/p>\n<p>April 2 to May 9, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Platform Gallery<br \/>114 Third Avenue South, Seattle<br \/>Hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 11AM to 5:30PM<br \/>www.platformgallery.com<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Tim McFarlane<\/span>, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Right Now &#8211; New paintings and works on paper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>March 31-April 25, 2009<br \/>Opening Reception: April 3, 2009 6-8:30pm<\/p>\n<p>Bridgette Mayer Gallery<br \/>709 Walnut Street<br \/>Philadelphia, PA 19106<br \/>www.bridgettemayergallery.com<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">On the Picture Trade<\/span><br \/>I&#8217;m currently reading <i>The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art<\/i> by Don Thompson, and it really struck me that some of the things you hear gallery experts talk about &#8211; seems to be so far off the mark that it&#8217;s almost sublime. Meanwhile Thompson takes you into a world that as we all has no real financial transparency while at the same time make illustrating a pathway to success that artists need to understand. Still reading, but a really interesting read so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UBS Closes Art Advising Unit in Basel &#8211; from Artforum.comCarolyn Bandel reports for Bloomberg that UBS AG, the world\u2019s largest wealth manager, will close a division that advises Swiss clients on investing in art. The unit offered research on art-market prices, provenance verification, and advice on buying artworks to clients and visitors at the annual Art Basel art fair. UBS\u2019s decision to shut the division won\u2019t affect its sponsorship of the event, which will only expire in 2011, according to the bank. \u201cWe have recently signed a sponsorship agreement for several years,\u201d said Maike Cruse, a spokeswoman for Art Basel.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=108\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fontana Mix for early April<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[143],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}