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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It’s because I understand short attention spans.

Barbara Kruger

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 KRUGER

Art Mean Reflection
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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Influence Profound Tvs
I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it’s the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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Battle People Thinking
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It’s the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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Artist Girl Gun Instead Pull
Photography 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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Hobbies Magic Photography
I’ve always thought that it’s good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that’s how consensus is constructed.
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Artist Believe Media
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
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Artist People Thinking
Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
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Made Real Technology
It’s really hard for me to use the term ‘history’ in the singular, because it suggests a reductivist view of how moments and events congeal and reflect the passage of time. I’d rather stick to the pluralness of ‘histories’ in order to suggest the simultaneity, the parallel forces at work, which produce lived experience.
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History Order Views
You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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Art Village Voice
It’s good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can’t be personalized.
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Good Hard Mind Practice Time Work
Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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Art Practice Two
Doubt tempers belief with sanity.
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Belief Doubt Sanity
It’s a small world, but not if you have to clean it
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Clean Small World World
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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Looks Mean Vocabulary
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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Cities Country Culture Production

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It’s because I understand short attention spans.

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