Canvas Daily
November 5, 2010 Back to News
FIVE PREREQUISTS FOR SURVIVAL IN THE ART WORLD:
Be kind to everyone. Don't listen to gossip. Follow your own path. Don't bow to the market. Care for your artists as if they were your children.
MY BIGGEST ART WORLD GOOF:
As an intern at an auction house, my superior house asked me to unwrap a Christo, which was brought in for appraisal and I threw the plastic away. I then spent hours searching in the garbage bin to retrieve the wrapping once he realised the mistake.
I WAS LOST FOR WORDS:
Andy Warhol asked me to throw a party with him at Area.
ONE OF THE ART WORLD'S GREATEST UNSUNG HEROES IS:
All the assistants whole helped create some of the most amazing artworks for famous artists.
IF THERE IS ONE ERA I WOULD GO BACK TO, IT WOULD BE:
The time of Cyrus the Great when Persepolis was built.
MY BIGGEST VANITY IS:
Buying and buying and buying art.
YOU WOULD BE SHOCKED TO KNOW THAT I:
Am an artist myself.
THE SILLIEST QUESTION I HAVE EVER BEEN ASKED IS:
At a New York art fair when I was showing work on paper by Picasso; a socialite asked me if I had painted them all.
THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY WAS:
Let's look forward, not back.
THE THREE THINGS I LOOK FOR IN ARTWORK ARE:
Emotion, power to inspire and provoke a response.
I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO BE A FLY ON THE WALL WHEN:
The moment Jackson Pollock invented drip painting.
THE WORST PIECE OF ADVICE I WAS EVER GIVEN WAS:
Trust everyone until proven guilty.
IF I WEREN'T DOING WHAT I DO, I WOULD HAVE BEEN A:
Lawyer.
Be kind to everyone. Don't listen to gossip. Follow your own path. Don't bow to the market. Care for your artists as if they were your children.
MY BIGGEST ART WORLD GOOF:
As an intern at an auction house, my superior house asked me to unwrap a Christo, which was brought in for appraisal and I threw the plastic away. I then spent hours searching in the garbage bin to retrieve the wrapping once he realised the mistake.
I WAS LOST FOR WORDS:
Andy Warhol asked me to throw a party with him at Area.
ONE OF THE ART WORLD'S GREATEST UNSUNG HEROES IS:
All the assistants whole helped create some of the most amazing artworks for famous artists.
IF THERE IS ONE ERA I WOULD GO BACK TO, IT WOULD BE:
The time of Cyrus the Great when Persepolis was built.
MY BIGGEST VANITY IS:
Buying and buying and buying art.
YOU WOULD BE SHOCKED TO KNOW THAT I:
Am an artist myself.
THE SILLIEST QUESTION I HAVE EVER BEEN ASKED IS:
At a New York art fair when I was showing work on paper by Picasso; a socialite asked me if I had painted them all.
THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY WAS:
Let's look forward, not back.
THE THREE THINGS I LOOK FOR IN ARTWORK ARE:
Emotion, power to inspire and provoke a response.
I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO BE A FLY ON THE WALL WHEN:
The moment Jackson Pollock invented drip painting.
THE WORST PIECE OF ADVICE I WAS EVER GIVEN WAS:
Trust everyone until proven guilty.
IF I WEREN'T DOING WHAT I DO, I WOULD HAVE BEEN A:
Lawyer.
