Is This the Art World’s Own Ponzi Scheme?
The wheels of justice have been slowly grinding away in the Salander bankruptcy case. Last week, Josh Baer reported that art world figures were appearing before a grand jury. Today, Bloomberg follows up with essentially the same story but some details on the bankruptcy.
this article misses the larger point of how bankrupt (ponzied out) the entire art world has become. art-fairs, wonky dealers, critics, magazines, museums, the pervasive investor-collector class, shit work, bogus movements and they're worried about this guy? me bitter? nah, just a god damed independent mo-fo. FTW, make non-representational abstract Art! paintings as objects, paint as object.
"I... must stick to my principles, our principles, which were, no jury, no medals, no awards.... Liberty is the first good in this world and to escape the tyranny of a jury is worth fighting for, surely no profession is so enslaved as ours." - Cassatt
TIME HEALS ALL, maybe too much time but it heals all
frankly its liberating to state your differences and stand apart from the riff-raff. thats how its always been handled and an avant garde maintained. Despite the central arguments of Greenberg, Adorno and others, "avant-garde" has been appropriated and misapplied by various sectors of the culture industry since the 1960s, chiefly as a marketing tool to publicise popular music and commercial cinema. It is now common to describe successful rock musicians and celebrated film-makers as avant-garde, the very word having been stripped of its proper meaning. Noting this important conceptual shift, major contemporary theorists such as Matei Calinescu in Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism (1987), and Hans Bertens in The Idea of the Postmodern: A History (1995), have suggested that this is a sign our culture has entered a new post-modern age, when the former modernist ways of thinking and behaving have been rendered redundant.
and now since postmodernism has been thoroughly co-oped (that didnt take long) its safe to return to a vacated (cleansed) modernism.
1986 Pyramid Club, New York. "Post Post-Modernism," curated by DD Chapin
is PPM dead too:>)
yeah, thats toast too. A systematic attempt to define post-postmodernism in aesthetic terms has been undertaken by the German-American Slavist Raoul Eshelman in his book Performatism, or the End of Postmodernism (Aurora, Colorado: Davies Group 2008, ISBN 978-1-888570-41-0).[18] Eshelman, who coined the term “performatism” in 2000,[7] attempts to show that works in the new epoch are constructed in such a way as to bring about a unified, aesthetically mediated experience of transcendence. Performatism does this by creating closed works of art that force viewers to identify with simple, opaque characters or situations and to experience beauty, love, belief and transcendence under particular, artificial conditions. Eshelman applies this model to literature, movies, architecture, philosophy and art. Examples of performatist works cited by Eshelman include Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi, the movie American Beauty, Sir Norman Foster’s renovation of the Berlin Reichstag, the philosophy of Jean-Luc Marion and Vanessa Beecroft and im not talking remodernist either. good old atheistic modernism. paint concrete.
is post post post-modernism alive yet?
if you accept that there is a post modern then it could be extended with multiple "posts" in infinitude.
that may be the crux of the problem. its not the binary opposite of modern its just something different or qualified.
im way out of my league here. i better stop.
ok no more posts on posts
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- bill 2-06-2009 1:30 pm
this article misses the larger point of how bankrupt (ponzied out) the entire art world has become. art-fairs, wonky dealers, critics, magazines, museums, the pervasive investor-collector class, shit work, bogus movements and they're worried about this guy? me bitter? nah, just a god damed independent mo-fo. FTW, make non-representational abstract Art! paintings as objects, paint as object.
- bill 2-06-2009 3:51 pm [add a comment]
"I... must stick to my principles, our principles, which were, no jury, no medals, no awards.... Liberty is the first good in this world and to escape the tyranny of a jury is worth fighting for, surely no profession is so enslaved as ours." - Cassatt
- bill 2-06-2009 4:21 pm [add a comment]
TIME HEALS ALL, maybe too much time but it heals all
- Skinny 2-06-2009 4:47 pm [add a comment]
frankly its liberating to state your differences and stand apart from the riff-raff. thats how its always been handled and an avant garde maintained.
and now since postmodernism has been thoroughly co-oped (that didnt take long) its safe to return to a vacated (cleansed) modernism.- bill 2-06-2009 5:37 pm [add a comment]
1986 Pyramid Club, New York. "Post Post-Modernism," curated by DD Chapin
is PPM dead too:>)
- Skinny 2-06-2009 5:57 pm [add a comment]
yeah, thats toast too.
and im not talking remodernist either. good old atheistic modernism. paint concrete.- bill 2-06-2009 6:10 pm [add a comment]
is post post post-modernism alive yet?
- Skinny 2-07-2009 2:11 pm [add a comment]
if you accept that there is a post modern then it could be extended with multiple "posts" in infinitude.
that may be the crux of the problem. its not the binary opposite of modern its just something different or qualified.
im way out of my league here. i better stop.
- bill 2-07-2009 2:55 pm [add a comment]
ok no more posts on posts
- Skinny 2-07-2009 6:07 pm [add a comment]