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what ever happened to this? and why am i only learning about it now?
Biel / Bienne circa 1642 via upload.wikimedia.org
At Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Auction, Even the Star Is Dimmed - NYTimes.com
Sarah Thornton’s take at Art Forum Diary
Interesting if you care, it’s just interesting because I’ve been following the story of the rise and fall and how it all gets played…
…”Some of the rock-star artists who experienced meteoric rises, helped by manipulations on the auction block, are now in freefall. The current lack of demand for their art has left their factories wanting. Although some of these artists are significant, the collapse of hyped and manipulated markets may take a generation to disassociate the art from the feeding frenzy of the 2000s for it to find their place in history..”
“In literature, the fetishism of irony, paradox, and complexity helped to depoliticize, that is, to conceal capitalist contradictions by invoking the “open-minded” distantiation of bourgeois modernism.” - Franco Moretti, The Spell of Indecision
Great Quote:
“Moral Hazard: The Art of Artur Zmijewski.” Curator Norman L. Kleeblatt considers the artist’s engagements with ethical dilemma in his work—showing the hearing-impaired sing Bach, for instance, or asking Jews who left Poland for Israel after World War II to recall the country of their youth—while curator, scholar, and sociologist Sebastian Cichocki talks with Zmijewski about the potential for “critical” artistic practices.
“Art can stop maintaining stubbornly that the answers it provides are really questions, since question marks often merely camouflage the real status of artworks. Change will happen only when artists consciously enter political structures with the intention of putting their own capabilities to use in negotiating the shape of our common reality.” —Artur Zmijewski
Greed Greed Greed Greed Greed Greed Greed!
thank you Graeme Mathieson for this one!
Giant Paint Balloon Slingshot (via jcl5m)
“… A grand jury indictment a month ago said UBS “solicited new business
from existing and prospective United States clients at Art Basel Miami Beach,” ABC News said.”
great reads, if you haven’t yet read them… xo
