Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 10:18:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Judith Frederika Rodenbeck <jfr10-AT-columbia.edu> Subject: Re: art and money (fwd) To: avant-garde-AT-world.std.com Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 08:35:00 EDT From:SLEVINE-AT-HAMP.HAMPSHIRE.EDU To: Multiple recipients of list CAAH <CAAH-AT-PUCC.BITNET> Subject: Re: art and money I heard a relevant story this morning on NPR. It turns out there is a new CD-Rom game that was developed in response to the violent games made for children. This one is for adults and is called "Millenium Auctions." It is a game of the art auction business, and comes complete with breathy female voice who introduces the game (at the end she makes it clear that the sale was a "very satisfying experience"), canonical works with high prices (Cassatt, Picasso, etc.), and an auctioneer who seemed, in the example given, to be having a "buy-in" problem, but didn't want to make that apparent in the course of that lot's bidding. According to the story, the idea of this game is to reinvigorate the art market and to make art a worthy commodity once again. If anyone ends up buying this game, I'd be interested in knowing what it's really like, otherwise . Although I am not sure what to make of having art act as some kind of tempering device against violence in computer games, I find it fascinating that such a game has been developed and wonder who might buy it. Sura Levine Assistant Professor of Art History Hampshire College Amherst, MA 01002 SLevine-AT-hamp.hampshire.edu
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