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What you get in fairs is that some work is designed just to induce fast emotions, what we in Holland call “noble kitsch”.

Wilfried Lentz

https://www.conceptualfinearts.com/cfa/2017/12/14/wilfried-lentz-interview-art-market/

#wilfried lentz #noble kitsch

One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.

Judy Chicago

https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/feminist-art-icon-judy-chicago-isnt-done-fighting

#judy chicago #interview magazine

When some ideas are taken too far from their context, they become meaningless.

Howard Amos

https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/9246/pussy-riot-saatchi-gallery-nadya-tolokonnikova-masha-alyokhina

#howard amos #pussy riot #saatchigallery

It is particularly fitting that The Connaught should have invited one of Britain’s most significant living artists to create its Christmas tree.

THE CONNAUGHT

https://www.the-connaught.co.uk/christmas/christmas-tree/

#the connaught #tracey emin

Being marginalised in any way doesn’t necessarily make you progressive.

Jake Hall

http://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/37775/1/why-are-gay-men-calling-themselves-androphiles

#jake hall #androphiles #alt right

Yet if artists can leverage the institution's tendency to confuse symbolic and actual political action, this same ambivalence can also serve the interests of the institution. For instance, the semblance of self-criticism and a move toward cultural inclusivity can have direct economic benefits for the museum.

Gregory Sholette

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/19071519/fidelity-betrayal-autonomy-gregory-sholette

#gregory sholette

The art world abounds with political generalisations and euphemisms that allow us to perform a kind of radicality without ever challenging the structures we function within.

Andrea Fraser

http://de.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2012/march/27/how-the-art-market-became-a-luxury-goods-business/

#andrea fraser

First we have to build in gold, after that silver, titanium, stainless steel, copper… these materials won't end up in the garbage, but poor materials will.

Édouard François

https://www.dezeen.com/2017/09/15/edouard-francois-we-have-to-build-gold-silver-titanium-copper-maison-objet-paris-mini-living/

#Édouard françois

Dominated by print and impossible to curate, books – so many beautiful books – were piled and stacked and laid out everywhere, melting together to become a indistinct mass of visual noise.

Hannah Ellis

https://www.creativereview.co.uk/much-show-degree-shows/

This is a fine curatorial strategy to avoid standing for anything, refusing any claim or argument: a meaningless pair of tautologies akin to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s famous phrase 'It is either raining or it is not raining.'

Jeni Fulton

http://www.sleek-mag.com/2017/07/03/documenta-14-kassel/

#jeni fulton #sleek magazine #documenta14

Art tourists, including the Documenta curators, come to live in their disaster zone for a while, smell the Exarcheia smells and hear its sounds, before catching their free Aegean Airways flights to Kassel to do their proper business.

Yanis Varoufakis

https://conversations.e-flux.com/t/we-come-bearing-gifts-iliana-fokianaki-and-yanis-varoufakis-on-documenta-14-athens/6666

#an eye for an eye #yanis varoufakis #documenta14

Liberté, égalité, Jean-Paul Gaultier

Catherine Baba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYp0WP7uZnA

#an eye for an eye #jean paul gaultier #catherine baba

Another Biennale with a seemingly random selection of artists veiled in specious rhetoric. A classic combo.

John McDonald

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/venice-biennale-review-mediocrity-suspended-between-poles-of-earnestness-and-silliness-20170515-gw4yih.html

#an eye for an eye #venice biennale

What is your impression of me, by the way?

Marina Abramovic

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/oct/22/marina-abramovic-artist-face-jealousy-simon-hattenstone

#marina abramovic #an eye for an eye

Emily Ratajkowski explains her Met Gala gown.

Vogue

http://video.vogue.com/watch/emily-ratajkowski-met-gala-getting-ready

#an eye for an eye #vogue #met gala

Posthuman artist and body-dramatist Xavier Cha is hosting a conceptual performance as part of the Lyon Biennale on October 19th and 20th.

DIS Magazine

http://dismagazine.com/dystopia/52667/xavier-cha-disembodied-selfie/