#whortist

"Sorry, Jay-Z and Marina Abramovic, but Richard Serra probably isn’t a fan of last summer’s performance of “Picasso Baby” at Pace Gallery.

Last night at a signing hosted by the Strand for his newly released monograph Early Work, Serra, one of the most well-known sculptors in the world, expressed a tinge of disappointment towards the creativity of today’s art world. He particularly emphasized his apprehension about fostering an inspired and innovative artistic community in the city."

"James Franco’s new exhibition at Pace is bad. It’s not a George W. Bush–caliber train wreck, but it’s close. The exhibition, “New Film Stills,” features 29 photographs from Franco’s series inspired by Cindy Sherman’s seminal “Untitled Film Stills” (1977–80). In each black-and-white photograph the artist-actor-scholar appears dressed (or undressed) in women’s clothes, often sporting a wig and makeup, for an effect that falls somewhere between drag and art historical dress-up. Though passable as individual photos, when taken as a conceptual experiment in appropriation, homage, and remixing, “New Film Stills” is at best comically sophomoric. At worst it’s disrespectful—to Sherman, to viewers—and sexist."

+/- ((plussminuss)) : WHO WANTS TO BE AN ARTIST?!?

PART 5 of 7

In which myself ((The Voice)) and photographer/installation artist Pia Coronel and our other pal Julian Zee ((another dumb artist/designer)) discuss the following topics:

_why art school is not important

_we discover that James Franco, Lady Gaga, Jay Z, etc are just product placement in the art world 

_ why dumb is always going to be cool and the degradation of society via Kim Kardashian

_ your real life vs your digital life

_why some of us heart Banksy

_a tiny dog ((Scooter)) welcomes our alien friends aka Mathew Barney & Bjork

_& we play our favorite new game “Whore or Artist” to find out those who are actually true artist vs plain old whores.

Recorded 4_15_14, Total track: (9:38)

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