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Feeding the Nile
The elephant in the room is literally a thick-ish magazine called Elephant that’s been jammed amongst other publications in my apartment for the last three months. I’ve finally gotten around to reading/addressing this Elephant (Issue 5, Winter 2010/2011), and found two parts of the book seemingly at odds with one another; both attempting to answer… (read more)
Insurrection Inc.
“Culture is capital”. So reads a stray billboard, and a mis-placed poster, and are probably not the only two locations in Liverpool where a Liverpool Biennial visitor would chance upon this logic statement. This simple mathematical equation is ripe for contemporary time. Rarely, if ever, do we think about our own, living culture as capital;… (read more)
art, meet science
Art, if you haven’t noticed, doesn’t pretend to know boundaries. I’m pretty sure it couldn’t find them if it had night-vision goggles, taped up with sonar-enhanced earplugs, connected to Scoville Chili Pepper Heat Index tongue extensions. The common law of physics that applies to everything else we know, anything within the upper limit of the… (read more)
mickey mouse art
“A Brief History of Curating” is a title recently published in 2008 containing interviews with about a dozen so-called legendary 20th century curators. Strangely, all were born between 1919 and 1943, making them 65 to 89 years old at time of publishing. If they’re still alive. The interviewing happened between 1996 and 2008, but the… (read more)
galleries: a one way street
More outrageousness from “Collecting Contemporary” by Adam Lindemann: a little game that galleries enjoy playing that involves some heavy handedness. In the game of collecting, there’s usually an unwritten rule (although sometimes it’s actually written into a contract): when it comes time to sell a piece, the collector is obliged to give the gallery from… (read more)
can galleries be useful? no, seriously.
I’m reading a book called “Collecting Contemporary” at the moment, and it’s a rich source of the goings-on in the art industry. Interviews with (mostly) collectors and dealers reveal the professional expectations of both, along with advice for new collectors in the contemporary world. In many respects it’s filled with one-sided justifications of the various… (read more)