- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Galleries Quotes
These galleries quotes explore crowded popularity, questions of access, and how art spaces help us process bigger civilizational challenges.
These galleries quotes weigh how popular art spaces have become against real concerns about access and elitism in the art world. For more on the people behind the work, our Artist quotes are a natural companion.
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- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art suggests stuff that is traded like money, that is kept in galleries and that belongs to the elite, whereas experience is something that everybody has in the course of living.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is for the elite because it has a very high price-point of entry. And when one is in that social strata, they look down at illustrators because they just draw things directly for a few hundred dollars, and that's seen as being a bit grubby. Galleries allow artists to stay relatively divorced from the financial aspects of their trade.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient.
- Art World
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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.
- Documents
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- Nov 07, 2020
States that have experienced revolutions or have acquired their independence from empires - such as the U.S. or Australia - tend to celebrate their constitutional documents and put them on show in special galleries so that every citizen can become familiar with them. In the U.K., this is not properly done.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go to galleries in New York, I feel like I'm in school. I know that there's good contemporary conceptual art, but I have a really hard time caring about it. I'd rather look at images of people and things I can relate to. Then again, I didn't go to art school.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I get some down time on the weekends, I love gallery hopping with friends, in particular checking out Gagosian Galleries - between the three in N.Y.C., there's always a great show on or something cool to see.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.
- Dealers
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.
- Amazing Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like what I see now in China, but I think the Japanese are a step ahead into craziness and weirdness. I go to galleries there that are the size of a New York elevator, and every time I'm surprised by the amazing things I find. I really hope I'll be able to promote some of these artists, to show their work in the West.
- Collection
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never did much art till I was in my 30s, except for painting video sets, designing record covers and T-shirts, and making zines and stuff. I thought I was too punk for art and felt grossed out by white-room galleries and art people.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most dictators, Col Gaddafi detests the metropolis. His vision of Libya is a kind of Bedouin romantic medievalism, suspicious of universities, theatres, galleries and cafes, and so monitors the cities' inhabitants with paranoid suspicion.
- Presentation
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the conceptualists and the prestige galleries are debasing themselves in presentations which have little else to them but the presentation.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020