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...artist admits this dissonance in a way, when he explains, “This is me playing curator with my dad’s work; he never would have had a show in such an august institution.” That’s cute, but even more distracting and random...
...going,” Thomas says. “In hindsight we can see that, but in the moment it can seem like betrayal; it can seem incomprehensible because it’s not familiar. But that’s why he’s an artist, poet or whatever title you want to give...
...where does that leave us? For starters, it means that publication implies finality, and as a writer, artist or anyone working on a product bound for publicity, one needs to take that implication to heart. It may be that we give writers too much credit for holding immutable opinions about weighty topics. And of course we do: It brings us vicariously closer to a feeling of certainty that all too often eludes us, especially those of us who are college students...
Chris: Bill, I consider it a bad idea to expose underground music to a wider audience when I am skeptical at the new audience’s willingness to accept the music as the artist intends, and when I feel that an artist would be likely to compromise their art for the sake of filthy lucre. In this example I can see the Postal Service going either way. The popularity of the first album was buoyed on the strength of “Such Great Heights,” an excellent single that condenses everything good about the Postal Service...
...taking the project into the streets and putting the power of expression in the hands of the everyday Joe, YellowArrow is not only continuing the reclassification of “art” and “gallery,” but also radically expanding the definition of an artist...