{"id":704,"date":"2018-12-05T09:01:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T09:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/?p=704"},"modified":"2022-01-24T01:22:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T01:22:01","slug":"secret-successful-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/secret-successful-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret to Successful Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-706 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/flora.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/flora.jpeg 860w, https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/flora-300x178.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/flora-768x455.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/>\n<p>California humorist Steve Sailer announces astounding findings about the art world, in <em>Takimag<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new study in\u00a0<em>Science<\/em>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/barabasi.com\/f\/972.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quantifying reputation and success in art<\/a>,\u201d documents that in the contemporary art world, it\u2019s less a matter of what you know than whom you know.<\/p>\n<p>Art economist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.magnusresch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Magnus Resch<\/a>\u00a0writes in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artnews.com\/2018\/12\/03\/moneyball-art-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Art News<\/em><\/a>\u00a0this week of what he has learned from his database of prices paid for roughly 10 million works of art by half a million artists at more than 20,000 museums and galleries around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.takimag.com\/article\/state-of-the-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the whole thing.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_705\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-705\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-705\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/flora2-300x256.jpeg\" alt=\"flora\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/flora2-300x256.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/flora2.jpeg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Classic illustrations courtesy of Jim Flora.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California humorist Steve Sailer announces astounding findings about the art world, in Takimag: A new study in\u00a0Science, \u201cQuantifying reputation and success in art,\u201d documents that in the contemporary art world, it\u2019s less a matter of what you know than whom you know. Art economist\u00a0Magnus Resch\u00a0writes in\u00a0Art News\u00a0this week of what he has learned from his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[165,166,163,167,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"tag-guggenheim-museum","9":"tag-science-magazine","10":"tag-steve-sailer","11":"tag-takimag","12":"tag-whitney-museum"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Secret to Successful Art - gallerynews.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/secret-successful-art\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Secret to Successful Art - gallerynews.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"California humorist Steve Sailer announces astounding findings about the art world, in Takimag: A new study in\u00a0Science, \u201cQuantifying reputation and success in art,\u201d documents that in the contemporary art world, it\u2019s less a matter of what you know than whom you know. 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