Congratulations! I'm thrilled for you. The venal machinations of the pseudo 'establishment' should indeed be ignored. Genuine artists usually ignore them regardless.
One gets the sense that the establishment is not very well established. That's less true of the old museums, perhaps, but the rest of it is a house of crepe.
And also, systems suck everywhere. People with insecure ego boundaries get an ounce of leverage, and commence using that leverage to bully and screw over every perceived threat within reach. That's the human condition. Calling out every instance of egoic bullying in your cohort can feel energizing, but spiritually it's like grinding your hand onto a hot stove for a living.
It's okay to stop.
Btw, I had a dream where I was juggling some sketchy situation, with questionable people, and you literally had my back. Thanks.
DMJ, in contrast to Artblog.net, has an alternative vision to sell. As far as I'm concerned the SBMA, UVA, and the Folkwang wanted to help me promote Aphorisms for Artists this week by putting two of my blurbers in the news. It's like when you so entertainingly lambaste bad interior design. After the Dissident Museum launches, another book and a couple of graphic novels are in the hopper. The deeper the portfolio grows the less necessary it is to call out the mainstream.
There's something print-like about Curcio's work. If it is based on photos or film stills, that would be analogous to prints after paintings, which is a transcription rather than copying.
CONGRATS! I look forward to all this. I especially like "Instead there’s a need to build art communities at a sufficiently reduced scale that values can be shared among their members." YES
Embroidery work by a man, especially if he's white, is of course most unlikely to interest the monoculture, assuming it could even countenance such a thing (unless it's a Grayson Perry kind of scenario, which I expect it isn't).
You're correct, and it's not. Embroidery by a man with images of Yakuza films and the goth-girlfriend memeplex, no less. David's treatment by the curatorial community in Boston has been, at times, dishonorable. This isn't the only kind of show that the Dissident Museum is going to do, but it's starting there for a reason.
Needless to say, if the artist were of the "right sort" in non-art terms, the work would quite probably have attracted more attention, even apart from its quality.
Congrats my friend! I saw this earlier this morning from the FAIR in the Arts announcement, and it looks like you're in good company along with the other recipients.
Congratulations! I'm thrilled for you. The venal machinations of the pseudo 'establishment' should indeed be ignored. Genuine artists usually ignore them regardless.
One gets the sense that the establishment is not very well established. That's less true of the old museums, perhaps, but the rest of it is a house of crepe.
And also, systems suck everywhere. People with insecure ego boundaries get an ounce of leverage, and commence using that leverage to bully and screw over every perceived threat within reach. That's the human condition. Calling out every instance of egoic bullying in your cohort can feel energizing, but spiritually it's like grinding your hand onto a hot stove for a living.
It's okay to stop.
Btw, I had a dream where I was juggling some sketchy situation, with questionable people, and you literally had my back. Thanks.
DMJ, in contrast to Artblog.net, has an alternative vision to sell. As far as I'm concerned the SBMA, UVA, and the Folkwang wanted to help me promote Aphorisms for Artists this week by putting two of my blurbers in the news. It's like when you so entertainingly lambaste bad interior design. After the Dissident Museum launches, another book and a couple of graphic novels are in the hopper. The deeper the portfolio grows the less necessary it is to call out the mainstream.
Also, glad I could assist you in your nocturnal time of need.
There's something print-like about Curcio's work. If it is based on photos or film stills, that would be analogous to prints after paintings, which is a transcription rather than copying.
He is indeed a printmaker. Check out the link above to see more work.
CONGRATS! I look forward to all this. I especially like "Instead there’s a need to build art communities at a sufficiently reduced scale that values can be shared among their members." YES
Congratulations - well deserved!
That’s great! Dissident Muse um!
Thanks for sticking up for us.
Kerry
Embroidery work by a man, especially if he's white, is of course most unlikely to interest the monoculture, assuming it could even countenance such a thing (unless it's a Grayson Perry kind of scenario, which I expect it isn't).
You're correct, and it's not. Embroidery by a man with images of Yakuza films and the goth-girlfriend memeplex, no less. David's treatment by the curatorial community in Boston has been, at times, dishonorable. This isn't the only kind of show that the Dissident Museum is going to do, but it's starting there for a reason.
Needless to say, if the artist were of the "right sort" in non-art terms, the work would quite probably have attracted more attention, even apart from its quality.
Congrats my friend! I saw this earlier this morning from the FAIR in the Arts announcement, and it looks like you're in good company along with the other recipients.