s there actually a common denominator for general acceptance or don’t you even bother asking on the basis that if the public sees something often enough they’ll get used to it?
THE PUBLIC IN PUBLIC ART – LET’S REMOVE THEM FROM THE EQUATION
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Artwork
ALGORITHMS AND CULTURAL WORTH OR HOW I GOT ENOUGH VOTES TO BE POPULAR
Cultural worth can always be measured by monetary worth or if that fails to impress, an algorithm.
MORAL RECTITUDE AND PANIC IN THE ARTS
If we were talking about a picture of a gun [not banned at the moment] then I could understand it. Any picture of any gun will likely send people into the streets on a mindless killing spree. In some countries, men in particular collect guns to hang on the wall and salivate over with the eternal hope of being able to legally or illegally kill someone…and of course, many do.
BROKEN DOGS AND UNDERPERFORMING FOOTBALL CLUBS
There was no mention of Koon’s dogs with any of these collectors but underperforming football clubs under foreign management may well be seen as analogous to broken art on the market looking for a new owner.
THE COLLECTIVE, THE COLLECTED AND THE COLLECTOR. A MATTER OF WHO YOU KNOW.
It’s all a matter of who you know
THE VISCERAL, THE THERAPEUTIC, THE INTELLECTUAL. I understand all that but what does it mean?
How very odd that the aspect of being human that we value so much may well prove to be the fatal blow to life on earth