the art world has always been an unrelenting taste machine, but now flavors of the month have morphed into flavors of the minute. Again, all a reflection of a wider cultural condition. I mean, the art world is slow compared with the music and movie businesses.
BARBARA KRUGERPhotography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.
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I’m trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture – not only national culture but global culture.
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Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I’m trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
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I don’t necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It’s just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I’m not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don’t do it. I’m not crazy about categories.
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You make history when you do business.
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I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
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It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.
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Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
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I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.
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I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.
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What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing – the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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