This is the stuff that gets someone's misplaced glasses confused for 'art.'
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Can someone just paint a decent picture already?
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another chapter in the death of art.
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Rachel Harrison is the weird girl in undergrad who made those bad thrift-store doll & Xmas-tree light sculptures, but stuck with it hard — and look at her now!
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Rachel and I had a tumultuous tryst years ago. I seem remember hardly anything.
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the work tends to grow more “sculptural” — in the sense of more concentrated, unitary, handmade — as time goes on. my bosom tends to grow more "sculptural" as I age.
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bedding, defunct appliances, outgrown toys, discarded Christmas trees in season and, always, sealed garbage bags these are all in my fridge.
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The art world. What's produced by one individual represented here serves to resurrect the serviceability of an old adage: It's not what you know but who you know. A concept that can be applied to a variety of professional endeavor. Particularly applicable to those in the creative fields where subjective evaluations dominate.
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Guess if you see what looks like a bunch of undergraduate art projects displayed in the Whitney, you might be inclined to spend a few more moments trying to puzzle it out than if you saw it in the halls of an art school. I really can't see the difference, though. Context and connections are everything.
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Makes me wonder if there is any purpose to "art".
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Art serves its own purpose — it’s not about being useful in the world, it is its *own* world. Although this particular type of solipsism seems to be coming to an end, as issues of social justice and the humanities have increasingly colonized academic art practices.
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Fabulous review! "[Rachel] takes a bad thing and makes it worse," as Hal Foster put it (positively) about her work.
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@blamegame Hal also said that Rachel is negatively taking a good thing and making it "bad, very bad".
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