Art critic Dave Hickey is fed up with the world of contemporary art. From The Guardian:
“One of America’s foremost art critics has launched a fierce attack on the contemporary art world, saying anyone who has ‘read a Batman comic’ would qualify for a career in the industry.
“Dave Hickey, a curator, professor and author known for a passionate defence of beauty in his collection of essays The Invisible Dragon and his wide-ranging cultural criticism, is walking away from a world he says is calcified, self-reverential and a hostage to rich collectors who have no respect for what they are doing.
“‘They’re in the hedge fund business, so they drop their windfall profits into art. It’s just not serious,’ he told the Observer. ‘Art editors and critics – people like me – have become a courtier class. All we do is wander around the palace and advise very rich people. It’s not worth my time.”‘
Read more in The Guardian, and read in Hyperallergic about his appearance at a pop-up event held by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (LA MoCA) in January, part of his book tour for the recently released Pirates and Farmers: Essays on Taste.
