shit in art galleries

[Clinamenic]

what piece is it if i may ask?

Still need to find out about this piece in question, but there was also this article released yesterday, about her latest piece.

Betye Saar Reassembles the Lives of Black Women

The artist restores depth and interiority to the caricatures of racism.

www.newyorker.com

 

[IdleRich]

Here are a few things that the typical visitor to such exhibitions would find even more challenging:

a) Stepping into Poundland without feeling ashamed
b) Buying a Take That album
c) Wearing Lonsdale trainers

I used to go to exhibitions all the time, and also Poundland. When I played 5-a-side twice a week I would obviously wear through trainers pretty quick, each time a pair got a hole I would go to those SALE warehouse places and buy the cheapest trainers that fit me - not actual cleats cos the surface was too hard, just all-purpose sports shoe that you could run around in and kick a ball with. If Lonsdale then so be it.

 

[Corpsey]

I went to see Nicole Einsenman at Whitechapel Gallery last Friday. Didn't expect much from it but thought I should check out some contemporary painting. And to my surprise it was GREAT.

Nicole Eisenman: What Happened - Whitechapel Gallery

Nicole Eisenman: What Happened brings together over 100 works from across the artist’s three-decade career – many of which have not previously been shown in the UK.

www.whitechapelgallery.org

Lately I've been more and more convinced that paintings can't be understood or evaluated via reproduction. You have to see them at the size they're supposed to be, with the texture of the paint and so on.

And this is certainly the case for Eisenman. The reproductions on the gallery web page look shit. In the 'flesh' they shine.

She's a witty and funny artist who has a knack for painting unforgettable cartoony faces, which you can ascertain from a reproduction, but you can't really appreciate how brilliant her use of colour is unless you go and see them face to face, which you should IMO.

 

[Clinamenic]

what piece is it if i may ask?

Spike Lee did a number on this piece, busted into a bunch of pieces.

 

[shakahislop]

saw a whole floor of a museum dedicated to videos of fish and other aquatic life, one of them was a kind of fish-based pornography, a close up montage of secretions, fish rubbing against things, plants that resemble vaginas

 

[mixed_biscuits]

saw a whole floor of a museum dedicated to videos of fish and other aquatic life, one of them was a kind of fish-based pornography, a close up montage of secretions, fish rubbing against things, plants that resemble vaginas

Where is this??

 

[shakahislop]

Where is this??

thyssen-bornemisza national museum, spain

 

[Corpsey]

Quite an amusing outbreak of cost of living crisis rage in the comments for this royal academy post (Marina Abramović has drawn eyes on a rock and they're selling it for 3 grand)

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Quite an amusing outbreak of cost of living crisis rage in the comments for this royal academy post (Marina Abramović has drawn eyes on a rock and they're selling it for 3 grand)

The utter philistines in the comments will be reassured of the establishment's fine taste and discernment by the choice of winner for the Turner Prize.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

The subversion of shared/obvious criteria for artistic merit is intentional so that the monetary value of works can be grossly and purposely manipulated insider trading style: the game is to buy a nondescript artist's work in bulk at a bargain basement rate before getting a couple of critics to inflate their importance and then selling.

Because the value of conceptual art is least effable we're basically stuck with it as it is the best means by which the above trick can be played.

 

[shakahislop]

got really bored of art recently. the whole thing of going to galleries and museum has started to feel like utter bullshit as well. it took about three three or four years for me, from starting to go to these places to being over it. weird how that happens. maybe there'd be some more life in it outside of nyc.