artists feel pressure to control work
Guidelines prompt artists to take cover.
This news article in a Sydney paper discusses the effects of police raids and and state interference in artists practice.
gh hovagimyan. what is art again
What is Art?
Flea ridden indeed! Analyze the question and you get the premise for
an avant-garde. No-one asks that question anymore everyone even
philistines know what art is and knows what they like. I’d pose the
question differently and ask what is the difference between art and
craft or maybe what is the difference between art and a theory of
art. (more…)
Thierry Ehrmann – court ruling
SEE thierry ehrmann – blog.: An interesting and compelling case of the court order for destruction of a 3,123 works of art made as an installation on the property of the artist in Southern France. Reason (ostensibly) .. not complying with strict building codes re architecture in the region. The artist and supporters are taking the case to the European Court of Human Rights in the framework of Article 10 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
See this short film
December 18, 2009 Demeure du Chaos – Abode of Chaos – thierry Ehrmann – St Romain au Mt d’Or – Press Release:
On 9 December 2009, the Abode of Chaos celebrated 10 years of combat for freedom of expression.
The Cassation Court’s criminal chamber presiding over a second appeal has delivered an order dated 15 December 2009 for the destruction of the 3,123 works of art forming the corpus of the Demeure du Chaos created by the artist and sculptor thierry Ehrmann in 1999. (more…)
Andrew Frost and art
National Times March 12, 2009 Art of negotiation in a culture war
We like our artists to be expressive, to let us see the world through their eyes. That is a given. But the weight of public opinion demands that artists do not stray too far from the concept of “community standards”. Art controversies are debates about what is acceptable self-expression. The argument is that there are responsible limits to artistic freedom. It is all well and good to express yourself, but if you go too far the public reserves the right to call the police.
Another popular and recurring debate about art is whether new forms of art are really art at all. There has been a strong conservative backlash against contemporary art in the past few years that has gained strength since the onset of the global crisis in capitalism. The art critic Jonathan Jones, writing in The Guardian arts blog, claims all this new fangled so-called art is the hand-maiden of vacuous contemporary culture. It does not matter that an artist claims to be critiquing contemporary culture, making pretty, meaningless objects that sell has just made a bad situation worse. These sorts of social constraints on art are a challenge to anyone who wants to make it. There’s a pact between artist and audience, which acknowledges that to work in a certain medium is to carry a range of expectations.
Being a painter is a largely redundant practice nowadays and no one really expects a painter to be anything other than a creator of pleasant decor. If they choose to do otherwise, they risk the wrath of a conservative public who know what they like. (more…)
Parisian bike-for-hire – the vélib’
Paris’s free bicycles. Check this link to see an analysis of the bike -rental scheme in Paris. An interesting story from a Bangladeshi news source on this 1 yr old Parisian bike scheme
The velib bike
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