Monday, August 13, 2012

Last night i went to the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport to watch the art critic Jerry Saltz give a talk called "Art and the Art World Today: How They Got That Way an What We Do About It. An Art Critic Unloads." I was excited to get some insight on things that are happening in galleries but instead I was made to feel crazy for attempting to be an artist. He called artist big babies and said the reason he writes so many bad reviews is because 85% of the work he See's sucks. The one tid-bit of the talk that resonated with me was when he compared artists behavior to that of a cat. Saying that unlike dogs cats usually put a third object in play to show their affection. Oh, and his final nugget of advice was to "work, work, work." Thanks for the insight Jerry, maybe you should just go back to driving truck.

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