August 21, 2005
Admin/TEST
(This post is a testing ground for HTML stuff. Text here is plucked at near random from my sticky notes, a veritable Sargasso sea of drifting ideas.)
Judges have to be impartial
artists have to be free
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is criticism about being... critical?
In what sense?
when people talk about being critical, the word is usually first understood a negative event
overcritical
hypercritical
criticism in an educational context
so things have changed in the artworld and criticism seems to be the missing link
so what?
are things worse for it all?
can't we get comfortable without a dominant Story of Art?
or maybe the story of art needs to be reset
it might be that a system that resists the right answer, or a particular story of art, will not be able to change, it being in a totality of itself
the problem is on another level, a critical overhaul of the past 40 years, we have to attempt to assess who we've become, before we will know where we are going
there is a lack of imagination
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Blogs and intrinsic value
they are free to all
and therefore, no marketplace?
Or maybe it is a marketplace where it is not money that is transacted but time, eyeballs?
(then it is attention that gets to be the dominant criteria therefore Damian Hurst)
But it's that an artist has a voice whereas before, no.
And the artist is more autonomous
A blog is another artform.
Why not?
Maybe because it's free, it doesn't exist in the commercial/critical realm.
Money doesn't transact. Or does it?
Or at least time is... transacting, that is.
And everybody knows time is money.
So then instead of something gratis, a blog does exist in a commercial sense, albeit below the threshhold of "awareness" in our art world?
The art world we know of is not the only art world.... are there many artworlds? Or if there is a multiplicity of artworlds, each coming to fruition like bubbles in boiling water?
Sometimes I read of other bloggers who wished the artworld at large would take blogs seriously
Isay so what if they don't? We have virtual galleries, virtual communities, virtual publications, virtual transactons, the web is easy, democratic, nearly free...
It's a wrench thrown into the machine of artist/gallery/critic/curator/collector or instead of a wrrench, is the friut of the internet a turbocharger instead?
(movie: Jacob's Ladder" If you resist it, it is a devil... if you accept it, it is an angel)
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The Greeks
As goods flowed into and out of the Athenian harbor...
Athen's first great artisitic legacy, the vase
Potttery wasn't a big deal artistically, what was inside the pots was worth more than the pots themselves
If you were a potter, I wouldn't say you were th scum of the earth...
It had always been simple in design , ,,... designs based on
They began to develope a whole new style of painting
freshness and naturalism
motivated not by producing great art for eternity
but of outdoing each other
Eu-blah blah dees, son of blah blah
I'll bet you frodious couldn't have managed it....
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