Art news roundup

Last week was lazy for me, but apparantly pretty busy for the Scandinavian art scene.

Two of the big auction houses opened their modern art exhibitions. At Stockholms Auktionsverk the list of art perfectly in line with the current preferences of good taste is so long it makes me sick. Don’t get me wrong! There is an abundance of great Scandinavian art here, but when you put it all together like this and put it up for sale it looks an awful lot like a luxury yacht fair. Bukowski’s auction is even worse. - Look mommy, another Carl Kylberg going for $100.000!

And in other news Maria Lind once again fails to identify the root of the "crisis of Swedish art". As usual she isn’t actually wrong about anything specific, it’s just so cliché that it’s hard to identify what is actually being said here. I’ll try to get back to this issue promptly, since the questions raised in the article opens for some important discussions.

Oh... and I happened to find the only predominantly positive review of Louisiana’s big Baseltiz exhibition on omkonst.com. Well, it isn’t really that positive, but at least it states that even though there’s nothing radical about his art Baselitz "is still a damn good painter". And that’s the nicest thing I’ve heard anyone say about him since the exhibition opened.