http://blog.art21.org/2009/11/02/the-center-of-the-art-world/ The Official Blog of Art21, Inc. and the Art in the Twenty-First Century PBS series Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:38:50 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.art21.org/2009/11/02/the-center-of-the-art-world/comment-page-1/#comment-14922 Initial Thoughts on SF | Art21 Blog Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:03:44 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=11212#comment-14922 [...] within a larger context. Glenn Ligon certainly isn’t the first or only person to claim that New York is no longer the center of the art world. While New York is still host to the largest concentration of galleries and museums in the US, it [...] [...] within a larger context. Glenn Ligon certainly isn’t the first or only person to claim that New York is no longer the center of the art world. While New York is still host to the largest concentration of galleries and museums in the US, it [...]

]]> http://blog.art21.org/2009/11/02/the-center-of-the-art-world/comment-page-1/#comment-14921 What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index | Art21 Blog Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:59:05 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=11212#comment-14921 [...] of the Artworld? Artist Glenn Ligon shares his [...] [...] of the Artworld? Artist Glenn Ligon shares his [...]

]]> http://blog.art21.org/2009/11/02/the-center-of-the-art-world/comment-page-1/#comment-14859 Tim Nowakowski Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:51:57 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=11212#comment-14859 U know it's one thing to remain a smug provincial and trash the ny art world as a sour grapes event, it's quite another to start noticing that in terms of the painting tradition, that we are in a holding pattern such that some might start developing a decline theory. Like music at the end of the 20th C., we have had an enormous bouquet of stars like Dylan/James Brown/Supremes/Hendrix/Beatles/Stones/Zeppelin etc., who exhausted the possibilities. It almost seems like in 2-D we have too many artists still getting over the 20th C., as if in every work they have to pay allegiance to Pop, Minimalism, Photo realism, etc., such that works start to look derivative. The conversation will pick up again, eventually, but right now Jeff Koons seems like eating ice cream, sweet but no nutrition. U know it’s one thing to remain a smug provincial and trash the ny art world as a sour grapes event, it’s quite another to start noticing that in terms of the painting tradition, that we are in a holding pattern such that some might start developing a decline theory. Like music at the end of the 20th C., we have had an enormous bouquet of stars like Dylan/James Brown/Supremes/Hendrix/Beatles/Stones/Zeppelin etc., who exhausted the possibilities. It almost seems like in 2-D we have too many artists still getting over the 20th C., as if in every work they have to pay allegiance to Pop, Minimalism, Photo realism, etc., such that works start to look derivative. The conversation will pick up again, eventually, but right now Jeff Koons seems like eating ice cream, sweet but no nutrition.

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