http://www.artfagcity.com/2010/03/17/art-fag-city-bad-times-for-good-art/ New York art news and reviews. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.artfagcity.com/2010/03/17/art-fag-city-bad-times-for-good-art/comment-page-1/#comment-237272 JD Siazon Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:11:13 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=12987#comment-237272 As an aspiring artist myself I think that what makes a lot of work suck these days is the idea of competition and wanting to be famous. By this I mean that a lot of artists are driven by very puerile desires rather than being completely focused on making good art. Everything is so aggressive these days like a giant advertisement party or something like that. As an MFA Fine Arts student at Parsons I feel almost overwhelmed with the circus-nature of my program. A lot of the artwork is good but it seems to come at you from an angle like a subtle pitch with some goofy-ass punch line. My point is that artists have their logic all fucked up. The desire to be famous causes people to think that they have to do some gigantic and shocking and/or outlandish thing to get noticed but unfortunately this results in people churning out abomination after abomination which is very sad in my opinion. People taking their clothes off or cutting themselves or doing "fecal art" or what have you. It all adds up to cries for attention rather than artists focusing on their artwork and just putting it out there in hopes that people'll like it and hopefully in due time fame'll come their way. Great article by the way. It's nice to hear writers shit on the art world because God knows that more often than not you'll be seeing a wack art show wherever you go in this city. As an aspiring artist myself I think that what makes a lot of work suck these days is the idea of competition and wanting to be famous. By this I mean that a lot of artists are driven by very puerile desires rather than being completely focused on making good art. Everything is so aggressive these days like a giant advertisement party or something like that. As an MFA Fine Arts student at Parsons I feel almost overwhelmed with the circus-nature of my program. A lot of the artwork is good but it seems to come at you from an angle like a subtle pitch with some goofy-ass punch line.
My point is that artists have their logic all fucked up. The desire to be famous causes people to think that they have to do some gigantic and shocking and/or outlandish thing to get noticed but unfortunately this results in people churning out abomination after abomination which is very sad in my opinion. People taking their clothes off or cutting themselves or doing “fecal art” or what have you. It all adds up to cries for attention rather than artists focusing on their artwork and just putting it out there in hopes that people’ll like it and hopefully in due time fame’ll come their way.
Great article by the way. It’s nice to hear writers shit on the art world because God knows that more often than not you’ll be seeing a wack art show wherever you go in this city.

]]> http://www.artfagcity.com/2010/03/17/art-fag-city-bad-times-for-good-art/comment-page-1/#comment-319380 JD Siazon Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:11:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=12987#comment-319380 As an aspiring artist myself I think that what makes a lot of work suck these days is the idea of competition and wanting to be famous. By this I mean that a lot of artists are driven by very puerile desires rather than being completely focused on making good art. Everything is so aggressive these days like a giant advertisement party or something like that. As an MFA Fine Arts student at Parsons I feel almost overwhelmed with the circus-nature of my program. A lot of the artwork is good but it seems to come at you from an angle like a subtle pitch with some goofy-ass punch line. My point is that artists have their logic all fucked up. The desire to be famous causes people to think that they have to do some gigantic and shocking and/or outlandish thing to get noticed but unfortunately this results in people churning out abomination after abomination which is very sad in my opinion. People taking their clothes off or cutting themselves or doing "fecal art" or what have you. It all adds up to cries for attention rather than artists focusing on their artwork and just putting it out there in hopes that people'll like it and hopefully in due time fame'll come their way. Great article by the way. It's nice to hear writers shit on the art world because God knows that more often than not you'll be seeing a wack art show wherever you go in this city. As an aspiring artist myself I think that what makes a lot of work suck these days is the idea of competition and wanting to be famous. By this I mean that a lot of artists are driven by very puerile desires rather than being completely focused on making good art. Everything is so aggressive these days like a giant advertisement party or something like that. As an MFA Fine Arts student at Parsons I feel almost overwhelmed with the circus-nature of my program. A lot of the artwork is good but it seems to come at you from an angle like a subtle pitch with some goofy-ass punch line.
My point is that artists have their logic all fucked up. The desire to be famous causes people to think that they have to do some gigantic and shocking and/or outlandish thing to get noticed but unfortunately this results in people churning out abomination after abomination which is very sad in my opinion. People taking their clothes off or cutting themselves or doing “fecal art” or what have you. It all adds up to cries for attention rather than artists focusing on their artwork and just putting it out there in hopes that people’ll like it and hopefully in due time fame’ll come their way.
Great article by the way. It’s nice to hear writers shit on the art world because God knows that more often than not you’ll be seeing a wack art show wherever you go in this city.

]]> http://www.artfagcity.com/2010/03/17/art-fag-city-bad-times-for-good-art/comment-page-1/#comment-236786 victor immature Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:28:06 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=12987#comment-236786 Oh! I like it that team splootch ventures a try! Oh! I like it that team splootch ventures a try!

]]> http://www.artfagcity.com/2010/03/17/art-fag-city-bad-times-for-good-art/comment-page-1/#comment-319379 victor immature Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:28:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=12987#comment-319379 Oh! I like it that team splootch ventures a try! Oh! I like it that team splootch ventures a try!

]]> http://www.artfagcity.com/2010/03/17/art-fag-city-bad-times-for-good-art/comment-page-1/#comment-236744 bryan Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:10:41 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=12987#comment-236744 Great article. Great article.

]]> http://www.artfagcity.com/2010/03/17/art-fag-city-bad-times-for-good-art/comment-page-1/#comment-319378 bryan Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:10:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=12987#comment-319378 Great article. Great article.

]]> http://www.artfagcity.com/2010/03/17/art-fag-city-bad-times-for-good-art/comment-page-1/#comment-236688 Howard Halle Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:10:15 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=12987#comment-236688 Right on. Unfortunately, I don't see anything changing in the immediate future. Ironically, the same taxpayer-funded bailout that saved Wall Street likely saved the art world's ass, which means the system as it exists will continue. But that's true of society as a whole. Right on. Unfortunately, I don’t see anything changing in the immediate future. Ironically, the same taxpayer-funded bailout that saved Wall Street likely saved the art world’s ass, which means the system as it exists will continue. But that’s true of society as a whole.

]]> http://www.artfagcity.com/2010/03/17/art-fag-city-bad-times-for-good-art/comment-page-1/#comment-319377 Howard Halle Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:10:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=12987#comment-319377 Right on. Unfortunately, I don't see anything changing in the immediate future. Ironically, the same taxpayer-funded bailout that saved Wall Street likely saved the art world's ass, which means the system as it exists will continue. But that's true of society as a whole. Right on. Unfortunately, I don’t see anything changing in the immediate future. Ironically, the same taxpayer-funded bailout that saved Wall Street likely saved the art world’s ass, which means the system as it exists will continue. But that’s true of society as a whole.

]]> http://www.artfagcity.com/2010/03/17/art-fag-city-bad-times-for-good-art/comment-page-1/#comment-236564 ak Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:16:35 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=12987#comment-236564 Validation: whether money or (the right) attention; this is best if it is the icing on the cake. The cake should be something stable, like Sally Lunn Bread. Validation: whether money or (the right) attention; this is best if it is the icing on the cake. The cake should be something stable, like Sally Lunn Bread.

]]> http://www.artfagcity.com/2010/03/17/art-fag-city-bad-times-for-good-art/comment-page-1/#comment-319374 ak Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:16:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=12987#comment-319374 Validation: whether money or (the right) attention; this is best if it is the icing on the cake. The cake should be something stable, like Sally Lunn Bread. Validation: whether money or (the right) attention; this is best if it is the icing on the cake. The cake should be something stable, like Sally Lunn Bread.

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