Seriously, people, RTFM.
A couple of commentators crystallize what is becoming the conventional wisdom about Wade Guyton's Instagram provocation last month, a few days before one of his paintings headlined a heavily hyped sale at Christie's. It's the idea that Guyton is trying, as Jerry Saltz giddily predicted, "to tank his own market by flooding it with confusing real-fake product."
Marion Maneker's ostensibly sober post-auction "analysis" begins from this assumption that the artist fumbled:
It's hard to tell whether Wade Guyton is inadvertently steering the conversation away from his art and toward his market or whether the artist has simply fallen prey to the Barbra Streisand effect where the more one tries to deflect attention to an event, the greater the interest.
And in so, so many ways, I have to say, I'm not buying it.
