Thank you for speaking out. Based on your previous email concerning Hyperallergic's bias regarding Hamas' barbaric attack on Israel and its aftermath, I canceled my monthly payments to Hyperallergic.
The banality of Walker--apparently without a thought he could call his own, completely unaware of the sheer flagrant low boil mediocrity he puts on display--is a thing to behold. These are the people running our institutions everywhere.
Oct 25, 2023·edited Oct 25, 2023Liked by Franklin Einspruch
"An elitism so unaccountable that each of their failures can be transformed to its opposite success by mere declaration." Precisely. And yes, the problem is compounded by their assumption of being untouchable, which greatly encourages hubris, especially in those already predisposed to it. But, they still know they need protection, for which they look to impeccable "correctness." Thus, being at the forefront of sociopolitical fashion is essential to them and, in fact, their religion--but they are more like cult members than individuals with certain personal convictions and beliefs.
Of course, if the answer to your questions to the Ford Foundation and the Boston MFA is "No," there should be no problem with responding to you, except that they may find you too presumptuous to acknowledge your existence. If they know you're the man behind this journal, they certainly won't.
Sounds like Teitelbaum took his cue directly from Walker regarding the Guston incident and made it all about "context" (apparently because the public could not possibly be expected to deal with the matter on its own, without the intervention of superior advanced life forms like Walker and himself). Please.
Even apart from the Ford Foundation, the art world has gone so far off track that "art world" is now a misnomer. It is so fixated on supposed meaning, message, position and intent that art as such is more or less incidental, certainly less important than fashionable political correctness and virtue signaling. Thus, the system is so caught up in projecting the "right" image and NOT giving the "wrong" one that it is, in a sense, straitjacketed by the prevailing orthodoxy. It *must* strike the prescribed pose. Sad.
Thank you for speaking out. Based on your previous email concerning Hyperallergic's bias regarding Hamas' barbaric attack on Israel and its aftermath, I canceled my monthly payments to Hyperallergic.
Equivocation how-to: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/icom-statement-gaza-israeli-museums-pressure-1234684690/
The banality of Walker--apparently without a thought he could call his own, completely unaware of the sheer flagrant low boil mediocrity he puts on display--is a thing to behold. These are the people running our institutions everywhere.
"An elitism so unaccountable that each of their failures can be transformed to its opposite success by mere declaration." Precisely. And yes, the problem is compounded by their assumption of being untouchable, which greatly encourages hubris, especially in those already predisposed to it. But, they still know they need protection, for which they look to impeccable "correctness." Thus, being at the forefront of sociopolitical fashion is essential to them and, in fact, their religion--but they are more like cult members than individuals with certain personal convictions and beliefs.
Of course, if the answer to your questions to the Ford Foundation and the Boston MFA is "No," there should be no problem with responding to you, except that they may find you too presumptuous to acknowledge your existence. If they know you're the man behind this journal, they certainly won't.
Sounds like Teitelbaum took his cue directly from Walker regarding the Guston incident and made it all about "context" (apparently because the public could not possibly be expected to deal with the matter on its own, without the intervention of superior advanced life forms like Walker and himself). Please.
So what are Walker's credentials or qualifications for deciding what to do with or about art?
Even apart from the Ford Foundation, the art world has gone so far off track that "art world" is now a misnomer. It is so fixated on supposed meaning, message, position and intent that art as such is more or less incidental, certainly less important than fashionable political correctness and virtue signaling. Thus, the system is so caught up in projecting the "right" image and NOT giving the "wrong" one that it is, in a sense, straitjacketed by the prevailing orthodoxy. It *must* strike the prescribed pose. Sad.