Digital BW, The Print

Julian Thomas wrote:

> Sad isn't it. Art dealers support stuff they can sell, critics write about
> things they can write about. None of this has anything to do with the work,
> but with the concept behind the work. Arts education (and I used to be in
> it) ,for a whole load of reasons that has very little to do with teachers,
> is doing a poor job of educating people about art - and very often people
> need the help of a dealer to interpret a 'concept'. And there is no causal
> link between those who have money to buy art as having the skills to make a
> judgement.

Look at it this way:  Academics (those that write about and teach the history of art) fulfill a function and a
demand form the less thoughtful.  And that is to 'empiricalize' something that cannot be quantified.  It *is*
a conundrum.

Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC




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