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Where good taste is demure, bad taste is bawdy. Where good taste is minimalist, bad taste is maximalist. Where good taste whispers, bad taste screams: “Look! React! Feel!”

judy berman • Welcome to the Era of Unapologetic Bad Taste

“an art work is neither a physical thing nor a viewer’s mental image of it but something in between, created in attentive space”

The Battle for Attention

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/the-battle-for-attention

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Sorrel Salb

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What does it mean to care about art but not about the people who made that art? And this brings me again to the annotation I found

Teju Cole • Tremor: A Novel

Artists: Be your own best assistant. Do your research. Get your tools and materials in order. These will be the ancestors, spirit guides and self-replicating imagination of your work. This will allow art to reproduce itself in you. You’ll thank yourself during & afterwards.

Tweets From Jerry Saltz · @jerrysaltz

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An ongoing shame in American newsrooms is that so much great journalism is buried in absolutely sadistic web design.

Casey Newton

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To me, education has do with being open, flexible, alive to ideas from everywhere. Unafraid of getting things wrong. No one knows anything in art anyway. Not really. Education is making sure that you’re not always showing the right artists who show in the right spaces and are written about by the right critics and curators and collected by the righ

I want to receive you as an active creator. I want to understand how you construct your point of view. I want to ask you how you see things. I want you to teach me about the enduring energies of old events that shape how you see the world today.

David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

Scott Sigal

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