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SLOWLY made it through the middle part, feeling excited to finish the book. It’s gotten slow… but it’s still interesting

Did not expect to enjoy this as much as I am but it’s great. As much as an anthropological study as it is about art itself.

wtf is the art world

Need to savour. LOVING so far.

“If our lives are the set of experiences that we collect, then art can enable us to literally live more in the same amount of time by uncompressing those experiences. Art is practice for appreciating life, but also practice for creating a life worth appreciating.
Each of us creates our own realities, so we might as well do so purposefully.”

aburrido cuando habla de ciencia y psicología del arte, pero esto viniendo de alguien que estudió artes 🦔

increíble que no exista ni una sola experiencia original en el mundo del arte

todo lo que esta mujer vivió siendo asistente de galería, desde la somatización del estrés hasta la cátedra sobre la temperatura de la luz, pasando por el breadcrumbing laboral, lo viví yo tal cual 🧍🏻‍♀️

cuando piensa que a lo mejor no la pasaba tan mal como en otras galerías,, yo a medio año de haber renunciado lmfao

llorando en joven profesional del arte 🥀

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Have you contemplated the forlorn beauty of a stripped-down storefront glowing white on a dark street? Or watched tarps draped on construction sites shiver with the wind? Like nibbling on a magic mushroom, turning an art eye on reality makes you feel as if the world is performing just for you.

Getting goosebumps while you look at art is called "aesthetic chills"

Group-hugged a vending machine while harmonizing with its hum

Every Red Dot means an angel gets its wings. And some fucking artist can pay their rent. It means that somebody who's a maker gets to keep making. Sean fader

Collecting art simultaneously demonstrates you have the wherewithal to hone an appreciation for an acquired taste and rich enough to light money on fire

Having fun looking up all of the artists. I've added a number of books to my "want to read" list. Particularly liked when Jack describes interpretation of the Danh Vo sculpture of the TV, mini fridge, and washing machine and how it represents cultural assimilation. Also intrigued by the international artist English and it's ties too translated French articles. Makes me think of life in the music world. Nonfiction.

Bianca Bosker is a brilliant writer. I’m having an absolute blast! Once again, I can barely put her work down.

…though he was just shy of thirty, I would have carded him before serving him booze

Good so far!

“You can’t trust your instinct. It’s influenced by mass culture. Your gut falls back on the safety of what’s accepted by society”

I want to name an all-girl rock band "Shit Tits"

Whatever love of art I felt shriveled in comparison to the bewildering feeling that I was woefully uninformed and thus doing it wrong.

My first trip to galleries in Chelsea left me with the distinct impression I’d wandered into a private party by mistake. Pretension hung in the air like an unacknowledged fart, and at each show, I felt two tattoos and a master’s degree short of fitting in

Didn’t love it

Gave up- library took it back

DNF

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Artists can switch off the brain’s filter of expectation.

A visual process of color constancy !

Monet: painted the catbedral of Albi 30 times at different moments of the day. From dawn till dusk. He saw all the different nuances of color. He was able to overcome the color constàcy of his brain. Most people would just see the face of the cathedral.

Most people think that they see what is, that they donot miss anything. They do not realize: they see what they hallucinate.

Corneo > pupil > retina > translation into nerve system > transmitted to the brain

Experts focus on artwork’s style (naïves on contents)
Experts focus on context (naïves on their gut). We like art more when we understand it.