The problem about Contemporary Art

The problem places such as the Tate is, when you go there every piece of paper, every piece of poo is significant because its got a famous name on it.

Summarized from Grayson Perry’s interview by the Guardian about Contemporary Art.

Frieze Art Fair 2012

The guy is very direct and reasonably funny reviwing this show. Yes this the show i visited this year. The frieze masters probably would have been more useful towards me but i visited the more commercial side the ‘frieze fair’.

Manuel Castells: Communication power in the Network Societies

Lecture of Professor Manuel Castells –

Castells’ keynote at oxford for the release of his new book, “Communication Power”

20th July 2012

What kind of worker’s self-organisation would be able to use efficiently the workers power coming from production, consumption and communication? a)traditional unions b) union networks c) networked unions d)alliance between the above

Otto Dix

Even through this devastating time of the 2nd world war there was some fantastic word. One of many artist that depicted the shear terror of this era. His sketches intrigue me the most. They show a stance of strong emotive power.

Oskar Kokoschka

Here is a German Painter that i stumbled across, he was emerging throughout the begging of the expressionist movement during the period of the degenerate art show in ‘Nazi’ Germany.

Degenerate Art – 1993, The Nazis vs. Expressionism

This is a documentary from 1993 by David Grubin (written, produced, and directed) about the art exhibit under the Nazi regime of what they considered to be the most corrupting and corrosive examples of what they called ‘Entartete Kunst’ or ‘Degenerate Art.