Experts reveal: 90 percent of all art is crap
Posted by: admin in Decline of human culture, What planet are curators from?, Art rants, The excesses of artists, crap is art, art is crap, Failure of arts education, The Art Market and the Music Biz, Other authors, Decline of art, Artistic failure in America, Decline of human accomplishment in art, Author's quote, Overcoming Artistic Failure“Ninety percent of everything is crud.”
–Theodore Sturgeon
“The art schools… you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.”
–Leonard Baskin
“That’s the reality of rock ’n’ roll: Just about every band is absolute shit. Listen to any disco compilation or punk retrospective. Listen to 98 percent of the ska bands that emerged in the mid-1990s (or most of the originals, for that matter). The overwhelming majority of what you’ll hear will be wretched. And it generally seems that fans know this, even though they might not feel comfortable admitting it. Few people listen to entire albums, even when they’re released by their so-called favorite band.”
–Chuck Klosterman
And then there’s this:
21 big blocks of crap in the current exhibition, “This Entrance is Strictly Prohibited,” by Santiago Sierra at the Lisson Gallery in London.
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