Who Runs the Artworld ― Money, Power and Ethics

Who Runs the Artworld: Money, Power and Ethics examines, using transdisciplinary strategies, the economics and mythologies of today’s global artworld. It unmasks the complex web of relationships that now exist between, high profile curators, collectors, museum trustees and corporate sponsors, and the historic and ongoing complicity between the art and money markets. It also examines alternative models being deployed by curators and artists influenced by the 2008 global financial crisis and the international socio-political Occupy movement. With a particular focus on a renewed activism by artists, coupled with an institutional and social critique led by groups such as Liberate Tate, the Precarious Workers Brigade and Strike Debt. Who Runs the Artworld: Money, Power and Ethics is one of the first books that brings together a diverse range of thinkers.

Brad Buckley is an artist, urbanist, activist and is a Professorial Fellow at Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of the VCA and MCM, the University of Melbourne. He was previously Professor of Contemporary Art and Culture at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney. He was educated at St Martin’s School of Art, London, and the Rhode Island School of Design. John Conomos is an Associate Professor and Honorary Principal Fellow at Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of the VCA and MCM, the University of Melbourne. He is an artist, critic and writer whose videotapes and installations have been extensively shown throughout Australia, Europe, Asia and the Americas.