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Repository 159: Three Artists Celebrate Art History | An Elephant in the Room
A strange byproduct of the current system of art, at least the art in the marketplace and in graduate schools, is the ignorance of art historical reference and the assumption that all artists are on an island of one’s own, that stealing is what artists do, and that your individual spirit is louder than thousands of years of history. Surprisingly, and unbeknownst to non-art historians or non-art theorists, there are many artists, professional and otherwise, that throw a blind eye…
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Repository 135 | The Eye of the Needle | Government and Arts Funding
Last week the world (Fox News and Buzz Feed), had a shocking announcement/expose on hand – the government was being asked by one of its agencies to purchase a work of art for display at the American embassy in Pakistan that was valued at $400,000. The news outlets, of course, screamed that this was tax payer money, and how dare we place a $400,000 sculpture in a place where the annual income is $1,250. I would like to step back…
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Repository 33: On John Baldessari and Lightness of Being
This past Friday I drove my work to be crated and shipped. So many pieces and thingies – 47 pieces total. All the while leading up to this exchange, I’ve been admiring the levity and space of conceptual art. Wouldn’t it be nice, that like artist Berndnaut SmildeI, I could simply create cloud vapors in rooms. Or like Yves Klein I could keep the gallery walls white, and simply serve cocktails that would later turn my guests pee blue. But…
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