Thanks for resurrecting this post. It is germane to my current thinking. I stopped going to the Whitney Biennial so long ago I can't even remember.
Last summer I read through a box of articles from about 1988-2000 that I had cut out of stacks of art mags before I pitched them to make space in my studio. They are marginally more comprehensible now than they were when they came out. I suppose because now I can place them into an art historical context. But the language always seems like a complete fabrication. I have been planning to write a long rant about the curatorial class (a pox on them!) who I view as a bunch of parasitical upstarts who had the money to go to school, but couldn't cut it as artists. And of course the schools (because they are for-profit organizations) don't discourage this trend. They have created a monster. I get very upset when a show is more about the curator's vision than about the artist's. And all this gobbledeygook from the last Biennial only confirms my feelings. I am a complete fan of your writing (newly discovered—as I'm a bit hermetic) and have recently gotten into blogging. By the way, I congratulate you on getting your studio sorted out. I am trying to source full-sheet cardboard so as to do the same. I recently had to ship a bunch of paintings and came up with a great solution. My photographer got so excited she is sharing it with her other artists. When I get a chance, I will write it up.
Last summer I read through a box of articles from about 1988-2000 that I had cut out of stacks of art mags before I pitched them to make space in my studio. They are marginally more comprehensible now than they were when they came out. I suppose because now I can place them into an art historical context. But the language always seems like a complete fabrication. I have been planning to write a long rant about the curatorial class (a pox on them!) who I view as a bunch of parasitical upstarts who had the money to go to school, but couldn't cut it as artists. And of course the schools (because they are for-profit organizations) don't discourage this trend. They have created a monster. I get very upset when a show is more about the curator's vision than about the artist's. And all this gobbledeygook from the last Biennial only confirms my feelings.
I am a complete fan of your writing (newly discovered—as I'm a bit hermetic) and have recently gotten into blogging. By the way, I congratulate you on getting your studio sorted out. I am trying to source full-sheet cardboard so as to do the same. I recently had to ship a bunch of paintings and came up with a great solution. My photographer got so excited she is sharing it with her other artists. When I get a chance, I will write it up.
Thanks again