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Subtitle: Contemporary Visual Culture and the Acceleration of Identity Formation/Dissolution
Jonah Peretti • Negations: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
When determining whether a cultural object has value, is it best to trust:
Tony Lashley • Curatorial Governance
I wrote that I was often asked by students: “If you had to select just one name from the whole history of photography as representative of all that is wonderful about the medium, who would it be?” My answer was always: “Bill Brandt.”
Bill Jay • LensWork #83 (The Bill Jay's Best of EndNotes issue)
Some of the things I’ve been reading of late
instagram.comIn 2006, the launch of YouTube promised a democratization of creativity. Anyone with an internet connection could now share their work with the world, bypassing traditional gatekeepers in publishing, music, and film. Over the next two decades, platforms like Netflix, Spotify, and Instagram further dismantled barriers, offering creators direct... See more
Dr. Felix S. Grenwood • Algorithms of Mediocrity — william
Sometimes the artist may not be the crafter of the work. Marcel Duchamp would find everyday objects—a snow shovel, a bicycle wheel, a urinal—and simply decide they were art. He called them readymades. A painting is just a painting until you put a frame on it and hang it on the wall, then it’s called art. What’s considered art is simply an
... See moreRick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
There’s a good deal of complaint about how flat contemporary art feels. Whether the problem is the failure of artists to create great art, or the failure of audiences and journalists to recognize (or seek out) great art, or some combination, I don’t know. Whether the key culprit is that art is too shallow and decorative or that it is too... See more
