NZ Art World
Haven't posted any blogs for far too long. Everyone has migrated to Facebook these days. Does anyone still read blogs? I posted this rant on FB last night and someone suggested posting it on my blog. So here it is in it's alcohol fueled verbatim: The visual arts got hijacked by the pretentious pseudo intellectual elite in a way that none of the other arts have. Im not quite sure why. As a working painter, i have come to realise that i possibly have just had the ill luck to experience my formati ve years in the worst possible climate as far as painting goes. The demise of modernism and the rise of the institutionalised museum and gallery system. The big names in the nz art world now, are largely the ones who broke into the scene when it was relatively easy to get work shown inthe, then newly burgeoning dealer galleries, and get work acquired in the important collections, and written into the art history books. Its quite a different story now adays. But things are ch...