THE REBEL YELL FALLS ON DEAF EARS BUT WE STILL WANT IT NOW
THE REBELLION IN. ART OR THE ART OF THE REBELLION
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Art
WITH THE GODS ALL DEAD WE NEED NEW UTOPIAN DREAMS
Art history does have a place as a sort of religion but nowadays it is hardly ever used. Plotting a course from Monet to Abstraction and identifying the two main thrusts of the modern era in Cubism and Surrealism gets you only so far.
IT’S JUST A STEP TO THE RIGHT AND THEN A JUMP TO THE LEFT. Let’s do the time warp again or maybe not.
Concerns about democracy, liberty, equality, human rights, political pluralism, religious tolerance, and advocacy of subcultures and countercultures are all hallmarks of a fractured society
DISLOCATION, PARALLEL WORLDS AND THE ULTIMATE FAILURE
n essence, the gallery is the tool of the owner/curator not the artist.
THE HIGH PRICE OF ART YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF
people go on cruises to spend money and convince themselves that they are living the high life once reserved for the aristocracy. Buying a piece of art would certainly qualify as ‘high life’ in that no matter the bargain offered
IN THE QUEUE AND OUT OF THE EQUATION
The relationship between artist and gallery has been extensively documented in biographies with positive experiences, disappointment and litigation in about equal proportion and while some note a decline in the role of galleries as opposed to fairs and...