Argument 03
Jury & Shopfront
Admission and placement were two separate verdicts delivered by the same people. When the power moved to the dealer’s shopfront, what got painted moved with it.
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Entries
One cause, one consequence, each
- 01
The Salon jury
A jury deciding what hung, where it hung and therefore who had a career — and the rejections that became their own event.
- 02
The dealer system
Power moving from the jury to the shopfront: stock, exclusivity and the invention of the one-artist show.
- 03
The good wall
Hanging height and the difference between the line and everything above it.
Hung floor to cornice, a picture placed high was said to be skied: admitted, and effectively unseen.
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