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October 23, 2003
TT: Found objects
From artblog.net:This weekend a friend of mine told me that he was showing his work – prints, mostly – to another artist who said to him, "Yeah, I could do this. It would take longer and it might not come out as good. But my art is about ideas."
And from artnotes, the first installment of a new occasional series called "What Would (Clement) Greenberg Do?"
My two-year-old smeared finger paints on my brand new silk shantung slippers! But when I try to explain to him that this is a no-no, he doesn't understand. What should I do? - Mary H., Minnetonka, Minnesota
Greenberg responds: What it documents is a crisis not of art, but of its criticism: a crisis that is also by way of being a scandal. Scientific method alone asks, or might ask, that a situation be resolved in exactly the same terms as that in which it is presented. ...these mistakes were not so much mistakes as insights, expressed prematurely. There is nothing more to it than that.
We are very definitely amused. (Both of these art-related blogs are worth your time, by the way.)
Posted October 23, 2003 4:49 AM
