Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:58:46 -0500
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-I: Where oh where has the avant-garde gone?


At 3:32 PM +1000 3/26/97, Gary MacLennan wrote:

>What ever happened to the old Romantic notion of the artist resisting Mammon
>and the forces of commercialism?  Here was this boring middle aged geek
>proudly telling us how private enterprise was very interested in his work.
>I wanted to storm out shouting "Wanker!" or "Charlatan".

You can hardly go to any "avant garde" show - anything above extreme
shoestring levels, that is, people ranting poetry in a bar - in New York
City that doesn't get some money from J.P. Morgan, AT&T, or some goddam
elite foundation. This is the high art of the high bourgeoisie.

Doug

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