Objects in the Mirror #3: Vibrant Community
December 27, 2014
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"Vibrant community." Buzzwords exist to obliterate reality, so what's getting obliterated here? Could it be that the art community is…
"Vibrant community." Buzzwords exist to obliterate reality, so what's getting obliterated here? Could it be that the art community is…
I tried getting money from the Non-creative Arts Council of Houston. The NACHO people think their job is to turn…
I'm so mega-successful I don't even blow the foam off my own beer. Nowadays, between late-night massages, morning tennis lessons…
For those who don't know, art fairs are the way of the art world these days. They are as inevitable…
Context matters. Given the art world, the non-art world looks rather inviting.
We relax together, holding hands, telling stories and singing songs, dancing and passing around bottles of the special Basel Brew,…
Nowadays, everyone intuitively understands that it's unfair to show artwork that's not mediocre, because it might bother somebody or cause…
The profusion of talent in the proposals we received, comparable to the massive cloud of pollen generated by a field…
She looked at my proffered slide-sheet as if it was an illustrated menu of birth defects and snorted scornfully. We…
It's common to cling to a desperate, irrational hope that somehow the art is not really bad at all. Often…
Although I already considered myself the greatest painter of the age, I never really felt confident in my ability to…
My art is just sharing the beauty I see while I frolic through my life. I hope it makes you…
I'm sorry you were born without a sense of humor.
For the record, I was 12 years old and I had no respect for life.
"The sooner every spark of human vitality is snuffed out, the easier our job will be."
Every bored divorcee or dreamy retiree who opens an art gallery to satisfy a vague spiritual longing is automatically, magically…
Last night, I had fun vandalizing the Museum of Certified Art's mission statement.
One look into his black, dead-fish eyes and I knew that I was far more likely to be found rotting…
Unfortunately, the Art Death system has no use for artists who say things like Satan has personally authorized me to…
