Status Updates From The Painted Word

“The deep-down mutter-to-myself truth was that the collectors, despite their fervent desire to be virtuous, had never been able to build up any gusto for Abstract Expressionism. Somehow that six-flight walk up the spiral staircase of Theory took the wind out of you.”

This shit makes me really depressed
that being said wolfe would absolutely be a redditor

did u know that Dole - the pineapple company - sent Georgia O'Keefe on a commissioned, all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii for 9 weeks to make 2 paintings for their ad campaigns?

volvemos a mi época favorita del año!!! (leerme libros enteros cuando solo me tenía que leer un artículo para clase)

Obscure take-down of the last 100 years of Western art.

we just got rid of the little rows of hung pictures, not to mention a couple of superannuated critics, &we've gotten rid of illusion, representational objects, the 3rd dimension, pigment (or most of it), brushstrokes, &now frames &canvas— but what about the wall itself? What about the very idea of a work of art as sth
"on a wall" at all? How very pre-Modern!