Interview with Ben Lewis in ARTPULSE Magazine
An ArtPulse interview with Ben about the current art market.
The Bubble @ Akademie der Künste, Berlin
The Great Contemporary Art Bubble is screened at a Berlin exhibition.
The Car’s The Star
This is Ben’s car: This is how it looked when he purchased it in 2006: It’s a Gwiz electric car (http://www.goingreen.co.uk/) which provides no emission! When Ben did his documentary about the art market in 2008/9, he thought it was time for a change. In order to blend in with the ...
“Ben Bursts Art Bubble” Cape Times Article
The Cape Times have released an article discussing The Great Contemporary Art Bubble in the run up to it’s screening at the Cape Town Encounters Documentary Festival. Ben Bursts Art Bubble June 1 2012 at 09:23am British art critic and documentary-maker, Ben Lewis directs and presents The Great Contemporary Art Bubble on at the Encounters ...
The Great Contemporary Art Bubble
Art critic and film-maker Ben Lewis spent two years following the contemporary art market, from its peak in May 2008 until the crash in October. Now – in this new and updated version of the film first broadcast in May 2009 – he returns one year later, in October 2009, to discover a very different ...
If Marcel Broodthaers was alive today….
….what kind of a work would he make about the contemporary art boom? I have a couple of hundred of these postcards available for sale. If anyone’s interested, drop me a line. €1 per card, minimum order, ten.
Art Bubble Review
Art Practicals feature writer Lani Asher talks to Ben Lewis about “The Great Contemporary Art Bubble” to read full article CLICK HERE
Variety and Huffington Post reviews rave about ‘Bubble’
Variety reviews ‘The Great Contemporary Art Bubble’ – “highly entertaining… sense of excitement… Lewis picked the right time….unusually candid” America’s leading political blog, the Huffington Post reviews ‘The Great Contemporary Art Bubble’ -”A visually splendid and diverting indictment of greed and collusion”
San Francisco Art Critic lashes out at ‘Bubble’
‘The Great Contemporary Art Bubble” continues to go down like a lead balloon with the art world – as you will see in this review from the San Francisco Chronicle by art critic Kenneth Baker, 15.1.10 . I’m sure he’s not trying to impress his rich art collector mates, is he?