Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 14:22:03 -0600
From: ann klefstad <klefkal-AT-cp.duluth.mn.us>
Subject: Re: Whitney Biennial


Anthony S wrote:

>	What's missing? Can you see the writing on the wall? Is this where it
>should be? How does it sit in your mind? After all, isn't art really
>just a matter of interior decorating?
>
>
I haven't seen this yrs Whitney, but I've just returned from LA where I saw
a buncha stuff. And noted (at Bergamot Station, biggest single grouping of
galleries in the area) that art is, at least there, a matter of earnest
competence about which it is difficult to care. In other galleries that are
a bit more edgy art seems to be mainly a matter of making a stylistically
appropriate splash. 

Myself, I think art is the evolutionarily necessary add-on organ to mediate
between consciousness and materiality, and the patent pathology of current
culture's relation to materiality (of which commodification is a part) is
evidence that said art shd be doing something it isn't. Does anything at the
Whitney address this (in more interesting ways than mere smug potshots at
the booboisie)?

Klefstad
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