I do not like the term ‘art world.’ It’s a useful term, of course, a kind of shorthand for something like ‘the professional sphere of the visual arts.’ But the truth is, art is not a world unto itself. Art is part of the world. And that fact has to be a fundamental starting point for everything.
It is not my goal to become an ‘art person.’ For some people, being an ‘art person’ is their main ambition. Paradoxically, when I talk to such people, I quickly become confused about why they are interested in art. They are interested in art as a world, I guess, as an environment to inhabit: for the parties, the people, the gossip, the money, the vague and ill-defined aura of intelligence and importance that art gives off.
…those who succeed are not necessarily the best artists, or writers – merely the best ‘art people.’ But the 'art world’ is not some all-consuming 'society of the spectacle’ that has come to foreclose any possibility of critical thought or real artistic passion. It is, at most, a theater for people’s professional aspirations, a stage that serious artists pass through and then transcend. When you have learned its terms and then learned not to care about it, you have achieved a kind of state of grace, and that is where good art begins.
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