And I try again to critique W’s new paintings…
But seriously, I could just be projecting…
hyde or die
“Meanwhile, the Americans for the Arts Action Fund, a non-profit art lobbying group, has released its Congressional Arts Report Card for 2012. The report assigns members of congress a grade ranging from A through F for their support for arts funding, based on a points system decided by a number of factors, ranging from voting records to the introduction of arts-benefiting legislation. The study points out that arts spending “represents just 0.028% of non-military discretionary funding”.”
“Let us remember the names of the politicians who blocked the legislation that was intended to stop US antiquity dealers profiting from the US invasion of Afghanistan […] Mark Green, Tom Petri, Paul Ryan.”
— Yikes.
“Pop is about mass media, minimalism is about form. That has nothing to do with white maleness, but that has everything to do with white maleness. When you have women and people of different nationalities making work, you don’t have the luxury of dealing with these ephemeral topics. You have to deal with your experience of the world and the margin you exist in.”
