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Hell  ·  4041 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Zak Smith’s Tips For Art Critics

    6. Stop asking for artist’s statements. If the statement makes you like the art more, it sucks and so do you.

You will not believe how much this needs to happen. The art scene is in dire need of another revolution, one that rejects the pretentious vomit some of these artists write in their conceited dissertations. It is so short sighted when sitting in a class learning about art history, and the different art revolutions and how the institutions were generally the cause of stifled creativity and inaccessible ideologies, AND YET that is exactly what's happening with all art schools right now, forcing creative talent to distill some bullshit observational diatribe onto a document that somehow validates who they are as an artist and their work.