Many would say that there's very little thats actually 'Avant-garde' in contemporary art, if so then what are contemporary artists doing? Why does the public have such a distanced relationship to it?
Saturday, February 20, 2010
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Or, what does the recently instituted blind nomination process for Pew mean?...for emerging artists, non-profits, nominators, potential nominators, commercial galleries, mid-career artists? academics? curators? the Pew program itself? Who wins, who loses?
some ideas (reposted from comments)
One topic that could be discussed follows the idea that contemporary art is dead, put forth by the art wake via artblahg. I disagree with this idea but I think that it could be worth discussing why.
Or we could discuss what its like to live/work as an artist/organization in a second tier city. For instance without a healthy commercial market, how does one determine value and or further one's career? Does this lack of market influence the actual making of art? How much influence should government have in supporting artists, therefore determining value? Is Philadelphia destined to become a sort of weigh station/ proving ground for transient artists/gallerists who must look to and eventually move to NYC? ie Ryan Tercartin, Johnathan Levine (SP?) ?
These are the first ideas that I have off the top of my head. I hope someone will jump in with some other ideas!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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Thanks for joining the Philadelphia #class blog. We created it as a forum to discuss some of the topics we would like to talk about during our panel discussion in New York. Feel to bring up new topics or respond to other people's thoughts.
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