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Online art platform DRAWER

The Art Industry actively suppresses reliable information about its products, a behaviour that the governing legal regime reīnforces.

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Brief emails > that looks busy & busy looks successful

VOCABULARY
* this piece has been “placed” instead of using “sold”
* website > online viewing room
* video > time-based media
* hanging paintings > installing a show

==> English Art language

!!! You have to place the object of art in the timeline of art history. You cannot trust your instinct as it is influenced by mass culture that surrounds you. Your gut falls back on the safegy of what’s accepted by society.

Memes:
smiling Gremlin (artist’s opinions at the opening)
Fanged Gremlin cheqing a glass bottle ( artist’s opinions once they leave

* The Square: satyrical movie about contemporary art
* Object-oriented ontology: the idea that any animal, vegetable, mineral, any object can have its own private existence, independent of & unknown to humans.
* Art Critic Clement Greenberg: Avant Garde & Kitsch
* Nicolas Bourriaud: Art since 1960
* Janson’s History of art (art history is just the history of the creative white male)

Artist: Danh Vo, Vietnamese artist
> masterpiece We the people (copy of Statue of liberty disassembled & all pieces distributed over different museums like e.g. A thunb in Guggenheim

> Oma Totem: tower of washing m/c, dryer & TV ( with the Vietnamese war Vietnamese became fugitives & fled to other countries. In Denmark, upon arrival, each family received these 3 objects to start a new life! = cultural assimilation

There are so many art worlds, and the art world is so small.
==> Lisa Frank, Children of the corn
Figurative painter, taking you into deep intra-psychotic conflicts going on in people’s minds.