The Act of Curate

Q: Why don't you pursue a career as a curator?

A: I'd rather not become one of those parading assholes who make contemporary art seem bigger and more splendid than it actually is.

Q: But isn't that the point of art museums?

A: Not to exclude humanity. To bring us all together in contemplation. Unfortunately, in the last century or so art has become vulgar in its search to sacrementalise the self, and destroy its own virtue. We've resorted to jackhammering gallery floors, inducing panic and generally acting stupid about it all.

Why Don't We Create Art Like This Anymore?

              

From salon to Biennale

Contemporary art, while ever-evolving, has developed into its current, glorious post-war, post-modern (post everything) reductive state through a progressive lens.

I've noticed several 'happenings' in Cape Town, particularly on the way home. Signs outside the felling of Cecilia Forest reading 'Axes,' and a rather enigmatic 'Tickets to Heaven' marker on the freeway.

1) Fiercely Socialist students from the University
2) Fanatical environmentalists
3) Ironic atheists
4) Banksy-wannabes from Infecting the City

It seems urban philosophy has taken the streets, occupying public space and creating an enigmatic 'other' reality for the average city-dweller.

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here's an ad girl with an eye. she has good sight for cool things and is a twenty-something freelancer. she's from copenhagen, denmark and likes general weirdness, be it in art, design, advertising, video or architechture.

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overweight art and a slob

you don't need very much to write an essay on why duchamp's fountain was one of the most influential art pieces of the 20th century. (it was an upside-down urinal, by the way). all you need to make conceptual art is an idea and very little skill.





art has become lazy. they have an excuse. it's called 'minimalism.'






you don't even need a brain for most things nowadays.

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