Pollock himself believed that there was a section of the art world that regarded his as a decorator.
APOCALYPTIC WALLPAPER AND THE EXCUSE OF ABSTRACTION
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OF SHARKS IN TANKS, CRYPTOART, AND THE PRIESTHOOD OF PURITY.
…….Kelani Nichole, who first priced and sold artworks in bitcoin in 2013 as the owner of the Transfer Gallery who said that ‘it’s absurdity at every level of implementation [the auction sale]. They, Christies, sold a JPEG. This was a $69 million marketing stunt……
CENSURE, ETHICS. FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE VAULT OF HISTORY.
The idea of self-regulation in the Arts is an interesting one and given the process through which Magnum photos is currently going to cull unacceptable images and their tags from their million strong collection, an apropos one.
CONSENSUS, FUNGIBILITY AND THE RUNAWAY TRAIN
One of the commonest questions asked by the general public [along with ‘how long did it take to do?] is’ why does some art cost so much? Both pointless questions but part of the inexplicable myth
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
If or when you decide to send one of your works to an art competition you would have to assume that there is a universal canon for deciding whether a work of art is good, bad or indifferent? Well, there must be. It stands to reason. Judges regularly award...
THE INHERENT DANGER OF ART
2,500 years ago Plato through his Republic sought to banish the mimetic arts from his notion of an ideal society, in that he recognised the distracting and destabilizing effects of art on its citizens