Although a popular misconception about art criticism is that it is primarily judgmental and negative in tone, in actuality, most of the words written by critics are descriptive and interpretive rather than judgmental, and positive in tone. Critics seek to provide readers with information about artworks, and describing these artworks, many of which will not be seen by their readers. is one of th...

This essay identifies two approaches to theorizing the relationship between financialization and contemporary art. The first departs from an analysis of how market logics in non-financial spheres are being transformed to facilitate financial circulation; the other considers valuation practices in financial markets (and those related to derivative instruments in particular) from a socio-cultural...

the goal of this research is to study the policy of democratization of culture and is trying to find out whether democratization of museums leads to democratization of art or its only result is accumulation of artistic behaviors. deploying pierre bourdieu’s theory who believes that “the love of art” is the result of cultural capital and utilizing surveys with the method of quantity evaluation a...

As the Cuban revolution approaches its fiftieth anniversary, Cuba has become a more consumer-oriented society. The island country stands at the crossroads of several systems, each associated with alternative models of political economy and cultural policy. One of these models involves the pursuit of socialism at any fiscal or social cost; another entails the implementation of policies conducive...

This article investigates the interplay between art, commerce and democratization in contemporary art market. It studies roles of merchandise, such as mugs decorated with images high market China. Relying on interviews, observations other qualitative data, this demonstrates that merchandising is legitimate The generation income promotion artists generally emerged important China’s world partici...

play is an ancient literary form in the history of human art which has undergone different developments. different ears during which this human art has developed could be classified as: greek, roman, middle ages, classic era, romantic era and realism era. play appeared with preliminary dances and music in religious ceremonies and has developed into modern plays and movies after all the mentione...