Tag: cynicism

• Predicting the future: A spectrum of irony

  [ Last summer my MFA class was tasked with predicting what in five years we would describe as the quintessential art of 2014.  What, with the benefit of hindsight, will today’s art world look like?  It’s an interesting, albeit quixotic, mind game.  Here were my thoughts. ] Identifying trends in your field is simply part […]

  cwampole

  November 17, 2014

  Research

  appropriation, art history, critique, curatorial, cynicism, feminism

• Souvenirs

  Does anyone else have a problem with the tradition of acquiring and distributing souvenirs?  On the surface it is certainly a kind gesture, but… Possibility #1:  “You’re going to R—, how lovely!  Pick me up a ——- while you’re there!” In this common version, the traveler is transformed from a person with privilege and an […]

  cwampole

  December 18, 2013

  Research

  correspondence art, cynicism, gifts, reciprocity