Digital BW, The Print

Is it possible
art reflects society,
culture and ourselves?

t

> From: Carolyn  Frayn <carolyn@...>
> Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 16:35:47 -0600
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] ART-what is it?
> 
> Well I may debate 'what art is??'  but I sure know garbage when I see it...
> and read it... ;-)
> 
> I'm with the cleaning man.  Six figures for that??  maybe he'd like to
> co-sign my house and split the proceeds??
> 
> Carolyn
> 
> PS:  do you dream in Haiku?  Wonderful! :-)
> 
>> 
>> Steadman et al,
>> 
>> Did you see the story in yesterday's NY Times about the Damien Hirst
>> installation?
>> He set it all up in the gallery street window for his new show (Martin, I
>> think it looked like our studios)....they had the opening reception and that
>> night the custodian threw it out...said it looked like garbage...the gallery
>> owner was quick to point out that he had only "set it aside" (meaning they
>> were able to pull most of it out of the dumpster)...she was quoted as
>> stating that it was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars...staff was able
>> to put it back together, mostly. Hirst himself thought the whole thing was
>> hysterically funny.
>> 
>> Is art in the eye
>> of the beholders or in
>> the gallery's dumpster?
>> 
>> ^  ^
>> *  *
>> \*/
>> 
>> t
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