“Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.”
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Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
I hate art auctions.
Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.