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If artists are seen to be creating art simply to cater to the market, it compromises their integrity and the market loses confidence in their work.
Sarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World
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lrb.co.ukThe turn away from beauty was a way for female artists to reject a racist, othering patriarchy, embodied in a classical aesthetics that were not their own – that cast them, like Schneemann, as beautiful bodies, as muses, or as servants and sex objects, and never as artists. In order to claim authority as artists, they believed they needed to make
... See moreLauren Elkin • Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
To work in performance was to stick two fingers up to the art establishment: it can’t be preserved on a canvas – only on film, but that’s not the same thing.
Lauren Elkin • Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

The bottle service club today pitches Goffman’s “action” to the world’s new elite; it encourages the rich to flaunt their riches, to display wealth for display’s sake. Bottle service clubs are predicated on conspicuous consumption, a term coined, in 1899, by Thorstein Veblen, the quirky Norwegian American economist.