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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes the art world can be a scary place, and you feel like you should know more than you do, but it's okay to not know everything!
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.
- Booming
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't been to Berlin Fashion Week before, but it's really on the up. Being an artist as well as a model, I know that the art world is booming here, so it makes sense that fashion would feel that effect, too.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood that we're actually experiencing something great. But I think that's what the art world is most afraid of, because you lose that security. Then we don't know how to assign evaluation, whether it's cultural or otherwise.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I literally have my hand in every aspect of the art world that you could imagine. That's what I've always done.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it's not completely a matter of opinion. The pictures confront you, and you see exactly what it is. In modern art, a lot of it is suggestive, and it becomes a matter of opinion.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, I haven't thought sufficiently about art. What I never realized - and it's really stupid - is the art world is the art world because all these thousands of famous and not-famous artists do things, over centuries. This hadn't occurred to me.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need to be working with the art world in N.Y.C. as much as I need to be working in my studios in Chicago and rural Wisconsin.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to provide a frame of reference that wasn't the usual frame of reference of the New York art world and Europe.
- Galleries
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- Nov 07, 2020
An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If art means as much to you as it does to me, or even if you're just exploring the art world for the first time, I invite you to turn off the boob tube, pry the Wii controllers from your kids' hands, and drag them to a museum.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about a woman not being able to be both and artist and a mother: that some very important creative crystal inside a woman would be shattered by the idea of having a child.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020