Re: [Pen-l] Guest of Cindy Sherman

[Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,
Ahh yes the art world.  Execrable delights like Jeff Koons and Julien  
Schnabel.  Bleeeugh.  Still paw their way into national consciousness  
as giants of an era.  Heave.

The problem with the art world is not so much bullshit as scarcity of  
support for artists.  The market based system is not a support for  
'schools' of art.  Not a standard of professionalism.  You can't  
expect a gallery to promote movements.

There is a lot of interesting art out there.  There isn't a lot of  
decent left wing examination of U.S. art.  In fact where is the left  
wing audience?  Said another way where is working class culture?   
There is a synergy between deeper thinking about the left culture and  
the mass who supports it.  I'm especially concerned to see Beavis and  
Butthead irreverence substitute for understanding in the the need  
about what to say to workers about working class culture so to speak.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
On Mar 26, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Louis Proyect wrote:

> The documentary “Guest of Cindy Sherman” is the definitive study of  
> a contemporary art world that Eric Bogosian, one of the film’s  
> astute interviewees, calls “completely bullshit”. Directed by and  
> featuring Paul H-O (the initials stand for the surnames of his  
> Japanese mother and American father: Hasegawa-Overacker), a long- 
> time denizen of the art world who was host of the public access  
> cable TV show GalleryBeat in the 1980s, it examines the celebrity,  
> ambition, power, and money that taints the art world. It even  
> affected his long-time relationship with Cindy Sherman, who  
> personifies those aspects of a world largely indistinguishable from  
> Wall Street-its principal benefactor.
>
> full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/guest-of-cindy-sherman/
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