Fri 19 Aug, 2005 02:32 pm - I actually am a painter myself. My flip statements are not meant as a dismissal of Art History. I care about Art History very much. I simply don't to be mired in an uncritcal love of a past... (view)
Mon 15 Aug, 2005 02:30 pm - I'd say that every artist working since the '60s has been influenced by Warhol in one way or another.
I'm not sure what you mean by "shallow". Certainly a lot of his... (view)
Wed 10 Aug, 2005 02:18 pm - "Greatness", as defined by cultural institutions like the Met, has never really been about an artist's "talent" in terms of skill. (Pollock was a more than competant... (view)
Thu 14 Jul, 2005 02:28 pm - My last post may have been a little terse and confrontational. I am too quick to dismiss the important personal and spiritual relationships people have with Art. Still, you mention the extrinsic... (view)
Wed 13 Jul, 2005 02:22 pm - The problem is, if Art is nothing more that taste, a preference for a particular style or medium, then all of Art History means nothing and Art is little more than a rareified entertainment for the... (view)
Mon 11 Jul, 2005 02:28 pm - No one (not even Douglas Crimp) was saying that painting as an activity has ended, it clearly hasn't. On the other hand painting no longer has the privileged place at the center of critical... (view)
Fri 8 Jul, 2005 02:05 pm - I've grown up around to L.A. area. I've spent the last year living in San Diego which has taught me how spoiled I was for contemporary art up there.
I've probably read about half... (view)
Thu 7 Jul, 2005 04:13 pm - I'm not really close enough to talk about the "evictory" processes of urban re-development, but one of the largest problems I see (in my more "suburban" view) is that... (view)
Tue 5 Jul, 2005 04:15 pm - Well the spectacle economy is a cultural situation, theorized by Guy Debord, where images are accumulated to the point that they become capital. That probably doesn't help much, but... (view)
Thu 30 Jun, 2005 04:17 pm - Perhaps part of the problem is that to academics their writing seems clear. I used to barely understand anything when I read these essays. Now that I've been at it for a couple of years they... (view)
