Unlike a more classic European operatic takedown of capitalist America—like Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s brutal “Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny”— these productions seem committed to imitation rather than meaning. They never elevate their scattered details to the level of myth. The productions are a collection of curios, a dress-up that... See more
Susan Sontag cited by Miller: “What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more.... In place of a hermeneutics of art we need an erotics of art.”
Presenting the US-debut of Jon Rafman’s “Punctured Sky” (2021) 🌟🐷❤️🩹 @jonrafman
Jon Rafman’s artistic practice spans film, sculpture, photography and installation, incorporating the rich vocabulary of virtual worlds to create poetic narratives that critically engage with the present.
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Yet, the definition of art hasn’t changed in 100 years, as W. David Marx explained in our recent conversation: “The best way to understand art is against kitsch. Kitsch is things that are made based on existing expectations of your audience. Usually it appeals to sentimentality because that's a universal aesthetic reaction. But art is something... See more