Comments on Kesha Bruce Studio: Is the Contemporary Art World "Hideous"?

Maybe now that a little gas baggery is generally a...

2011-12-17T01:04:17.465+01:00

Maybe now that a little gas baggery is generally acceptable, people are pushing the limits how of gassy or baggish art can be.

Doesn't mean we have to like it, although crazy new movements in art – for all that they're a rejection of what came before – sometimes spin out some gems (read: beautiful, inspiring, moving work). Some of us still believe in these things :-)

@Jeannette Two Comments: 1. I may be in love wi...

2011-12-16T09:52:57.705+01:00

@Jeannette

Two Comments:

1. I may be in love with Dan Clowes.

2. From this day forward I plan on using "gas baggery" as much as possible.

here's a link to most of dan clowe's art s...

2011-12-14T03:49:51.470+01:00

here's a link to most of dan clowe's art school confidential -- as a pratt BFA he is much more well informed than i, and saatchi's remarks seem to be of a piece with this satire.

http://aseasonedtaste.blogspot.com/2011/02/dan-clowes-art-school-confidential.html?zx=6bf184e2153606b9

yeah, i think it probably is true of the people sa...

2011-12-14T03:13:45.669+01:00

yeah, i think it probably is true of the people saatchi hangs out with, but not of the makers and not of actual "contemporary" "art", whatever that might be. the one artist i know well, from when we were both in junior high school, has gotten more and more pompous about what she says about her work since apparently you now have to come up with artist's statements. so there is a lot of gas baggery out there which some funny people refer to as what one learns in art school.

i also think performance art has contributed to the mayhem. i know somebody who got a masters' degree from pratt doing a 60s groupie plaster caster thing. srsly, this lineup of casts of all her men friends was her masters thesis -- and this would've been in the last 10 years. i think that's gas baggery too. she also made "art" doing stunts, press releases, and running in the brooklyn marathon dressed in cold cuts. funny, but bs, mainly because the gravitas, if you will, is all in the incredibly pompous and also completely bs artist's statements.

none of this applies to people like you who actually make things. xxx