Saturday, April 21, 2018

Explain this to me

Explain this to me:
If you write a book which hardly anyone has read, you are invited on a talk show. The host holds up the book and they yak about it.
But if you’re an artist (of which there are plenty talented and powerful ones), and you are making visual art, which easily suits TV as a visual medium, you are almost never invited.
Explain this to me:
If you create a piece of art--which is made to be seen--and which is so powerful that it becomes valuable, then it becomes a commodity and gets locked up in a storage space rarely to be seen.
Explain this to me:
If you peruse the major art magazines, you realize that words take up much more space than images, and that words are often more about the writer than the art.

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