1/ thread discussing art galleries by Kendric when I was writing Aristillus 1 & 2 I thought a lot about what retail spaces look like in the future ; the TLDR is that I think we'll have a lot less, but I think that we'll see _SOCIAL_ spaces grow.https://twitter.com/kendrictonn/status/1460354531217317890 …
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5/ problem w artists each doing their own outreach is that market aggregators service a function: they coordinate a two-sided market where acquiring patrons and vetting artists are both trickyhttps://twitter.com/coinaday1/status/1460355780738170882 …
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6/ well, re "no one", I counter this claim by pointing out that GALLERIES EXIST and people want to go to them but, that said, I agree that "primary an X, with art on the walls" is a big win here, and I called it out upthread - see #4https://twitter.com/OneMichaelTew/status/1460357215274119170 …
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7/ seems likely - the marginal cost to putting up a micro-gallery on a wall of an existing coffee house is close to zero, while the cost of spinning up a true dedicated gallery is much higherhttps://twitter.com/SporadicE5/status/1460358464144818183 …
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8/ I personally think that the big hurdle that galleries (and artists) have to overcome is the social one of "art is a thing that a normal person can buy". This is a bit tricky - everyone likes to spend money to do social signalling, but there's a truism that >>>
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9/ people don't signal that they're members of the group one above them by doing what the group one above them does - they signal by doing what they THINK the group one above them does artists and galleriests need a monopolist like deBeers to create aspirational advertising
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Nobody wants to go to a "gallery." But people probably would really want to go to cool bars with amazing art.
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