https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-four-social-classes-art/amp “I didn’t need a sociology degree to know who were the generals, the majors, and the lieutenants. Norman Podhoretz, the relentless spectator of New York society, used to say that the generals stay away from those of lesser rank, for fear of being aggressed against, while lieutenants avoid their superiors, for fear of beingContinue reading “social classes of the Art world”
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how to be an artist
https://www.vulture.com/2018/11/jerry-saltz-how-to-be-an-artist.html These days, an artist might exhibit an all-brown painting with a long wall text informing us that the artist took the canvas to Kosovo near the site of a 1990s Serbian massacre and rubbed dirt on the canvas for two hours while blindfolded to commemorate the killing. Recently, while I was looking at boringContinue reading “how to be an artist”
friends will make you famous
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-artists-famous-friends-originality-workh Study Finds Artists Become Famous through Their Friends, Not the Originality of Their Work
artists who behave terribly
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-romanticize-artists-behaved-terribly “It’s diabolically hard to sell a cultural product on its merits alone. Look around: Nearly all arts publicity is backstory. About the maker. About a work’s origin. About anything except that which was intended to speak for itself. “
a manifesto for heresy
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/a-manifesto-for-heresy/21379 “you either accept your status as ‘evil’ and silence yourself for the supposed good of social stability; or you reject this status and continue to utter your so-called heresy because you believe, sincerely, that it is true. This is your choice, this is your heresy.”
