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Just Stop - Less is more no matter how clichéd.
We see this in so many facets of society, the size of cars, the amount we eat, the endless scroll and the serial subscriptions. Our access to celebrities both invasively and performatively, the nameless 5 hour livestreams.... many of us have more than we could ever hope to truly consume, and certainly more than we can properly process. Maybe its my age showing, yet i cant help but wrinkle my nose at the reek of entitlement that comes forth from the maws of the many, clamourin
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Abused Abstraction - The Artists intent V The investors portfolio.
We've all seen it happen here right? At least those of us who've been here a few years have; A "collector" buys something new, and the artwork/artist is heralded as x or y, the greatest in terms of z, their work "speaks" of the "raw" and "emotional" (the emotion never specified of course). It may not even be an abstract work, it may be some very base imagery, a reinvention of a visual pun or metaphor a 15 year old posted on tumblr in 2012 (ohhhh a pill packet with social medi
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Buying Art is a Cultural Vote - Innovation & Invention of culture through art
When you buy or support a work of art, whether that be through movie tickets or a cardboard painting at the corner of the block, you are casting a cultural vote. A vote you can cast without limit other than your own, a vote you can cast any day, one you can even cast for conflicting ideals, and surely will, as testament to the nuanced complexity that makes up us all. Now whilst many understand that at face value, that going to see superhero movies results in more content in k
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