24 May 2011

On why Museum Directors are a problem

Tomorrow is made up of the potential created today, with some unexpected tangential and entirely unexpected evolutionary events which might or might not occur in the overnight betwixt the two.
Speaking of fearless, it is probably about time real artists started being a little less fearful of the elephant in the room – curators, exhibitors, museum directors and the whole panoply of the Show and Tell Machinery who are fundamentally superfluous without some decent art to show.
We have far too much audience pleasing and entirely too much entertainment dressed-up as art for anyone’s good.
Enjoy your conferences, think tanks and expensive get-togethers by all means, celebrate the wonderfulness of your solipsistic academo-bolloquialisms but please, remain sufficiently and ever constantly mindful of that which is tail and that which is dog.
Museum commissions do nothing to help make important and world-changing art except for the kind of art-ertainment that those very museums and their rarified directorates think that audiences are likely to respond to – the sound of one hand missing itself is quite, quite deafening……….

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