Good work. One could begin to smell the undermining and commandeering of publicly funded museums, natural and easy targets of opportunistic Alinskyite scamps, about which you ably report, a good quarter century or more ago.
I admire your deft observations, as one whoi is too distant to really be involved. There is something perverse about all the weight of well-paid bureaucrats in an inverted pyramid that rests its point on the artists - and so many admirable ones who are not in consideration. Loved your takedown in Hyperallergic. I broke out in a rash from reading them after October 7 and FWIW dropped them from my overfull Inbox.
Franklin, you do good, laudable work here, which certainly ought to be done, but there is so much rot, nay, perversion in the world of the arts that it's like dissecting a decomposing corpse. How so many people can be so unfit for their jobs yet get so far and wield such power defies belief. But then again, look at the ostensible leader of the free world. Lord have mercy.
As you know, I applaud that you're documenting this madness, but reading these is a bit like watching that old flick Melancholia. The meteor is approaching, we know it and observation doesn't slow the approach.
I've never been, nor tried to be, part of the art world. However, I have little if any doubt that I have a lot more business being in a museum setting than a great many museum "professionals." Of course, that's not necessarily saying much, and it's saying less and less all the time.
Couldn't we just paint cool stuff on all the highways instead?
You win the internet today sir
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Excellent.
Good work. One could begin to smell the undermining and commandeering of publicly funded museums, natural and easy targets of opportunistic Alinskyite scamps, about which you ably report, a good quarter century or more ago.
I admire your deft observations, as one whoi is too distant to really be involved. There is something perverse about all the weight of well-paid bureaucrats in an inverted pyramid that rests its point on the artists - and so many admirable ones who are not in consideration. Loved your takedown in Hyperallergic. I broke out in a rash from reading them after October 7 and FWIW dropped them from my overfull Inbox.
You have spoken to them in the language they understand.
Franklin, you do good, laudable work here, which certainly ought to be done, but there is so much rot, nay, perversion in the world of the arts that it's like dissecting a decomposing corpse. How so many people can be so unfit for their jobs yet get so far and wield such power defies belief. But then again, look at the ostensible leader of the free world. Lord have mercy.
As you know, I applaud that you're documenting this madness, but reading these is a bit like watching that old flick Melancholia. The meteor is approaching, we know it and observation doesn't slow the approach.
The Dissident Museum launches this summer, if all goes according to plan. The meteor will hit but we little shrews may survive. Stay tuned.
I've never been, nor tried to be, part of the art world. However, I have little if any doubt that I have a lot more business being in a museum setting than a great many museum "professionals." Of course, that's not necessarily saying much, and it's saying less and less all the time.