I watched this documentary last night called the beautiful losers. If you haven’t heard of it, its about these rebel artists who change from graffiti artists to established artists who do alot of work for advertisements and the media. They also opened their own gallery and basically tried to, in their terms, “make it without any help of the art institutions.” I thought it was interesting in terms of what we talked about in class yesterday…they started out a punk street kids and were all about the rebellion, yet they ended up in pepsi adds. They basically said they just wanted to get their work seen, so they stopped caring about the anti-institution vibe. None-the-less, they became a part of the controlled art establishments they started out hating. just wanted to reiterate the circle!
practitioners
commentary
- kseverny on kathe kollwitz
- kseverny on Beautiful Losers
- especk on The Sandpit by Sam O’Hare
- kseverny on Twenty Two: Photo Senior Show! This Friday!
- aliciaprice313 on Maurizio Cattelan exhibits at the Menil Collection
links
- 'Bout What I Sees
- …might be good
- AAAARG.ORG
- Alliance of Artist Communities
- Art Lies
- Big Red & Shiny
- Cablegram
- Clusterflock
- Daily Serving
- Design Is Kinky
- Glasstire
- O Empire Wide And Glorious
- Res Artis
- St. Edwards University
- The Center For Land Use Interpretation
- The Museum of Jurassic Technology
- Up Like Toast
its great stuff.
A lot of people seem to be trying to make it without the art institutions.
To me that says something