IT IS TIME THAT WE AS ARTISTS HOLD THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN "POWER" ACCOUNTABLE
Am I crazy for feelin the way I do? I DON"T THINK SO!!! Stupid Art=Stupid People=Stupid Art!
"When we learn that a newish painting by the second-rate latter-day Neo-Expressionist Marlene Dumas sold for over three million dollars, does it alter how we think of her work? Does it alter the ways magazine editors or curators think about it? The curator of Dumas's upcoming MOMA exhibition, the otherwise excellent Connie Butler, recently responded to one of my public hissy fits about the overestimation of this artist by saying, "Dumas has been making portraits of terrorists," as if to suggest that certain subject matter exempts art from criticism. In fact, this subject matter is not only predictable and generic, and in that sense utterly conservative, its perfect fodder for a culture in disconnect."-Jerry Saltz
Check it out...www.villagevoice.com/art/070....html... I would love to hear more people speak out about the subject... read any articles like this? pass them on!! Better YET take action.. openly criticize CURATORS AND ART DEALERS or as they like to call themselves "GALLERISTS"! LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD!! If the link no longer works contact me for a copy of the full article! Thank you, Ken.
Am I crazy for feelin the way I do? I DON"T THINK SO!!! Stupid Art=Stupid People=Stupid Art!
"When we learn that a newish painting by the second-rate latter-day Neo-Expressionist Marlene Dumas sold for over three million dollars, does it alter how we think of her work? Does it alter the ways magazine editors or curators think about it? The curator of Dumas's upcoming MOMA exhibition, the otherwise excellent Connie Butler, recently responded to one of my public hissy fits about the overestimation of this artist by saying, "Dumas has been making portraits of terrorists," as if to suggest that certain subject matter exempts art from criticism. In fact, this subject matter is not only predictable and generic, and in that sense utterly conservative, its perfect fodder for a culture in disconnect."-Jerry Saltz
Check it out...www.villagevoice.com/art/070....html... I would love to hear more people speak out about the subject... read any articles like this? pass them on!! Better YET take action.. openly criticize CURATORS AND ART DEALERS or as they like to call themselves "GALLERISTS"! LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD!! If the link no longer works contact me for a copy of the full article! Thank you, Ken.
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