“"Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and then coming down. I'm not sure who will come up with a better term to describe art, but I think contemporary art is actually done for.” ThinkingYearsKindArtDoneTermWallArt IsHistoricalCome UpContemporaryNot SureBerlinContemporary ArtBerlin Wall Author:Liam Gillick
“People think that the art market is about opportunists and hedge-fund managers getting broken art, but what really happened is that there was a new configuration of bourgeois values in the U.S. and an acceptance among the bourgeoisie of contemporary art as an idea. I think that bourgeois people are horrible.” PeopleThinkingArtIdeasValuesHappenedAcceptanceBrokenHorribleContemporaryManagersFundBourgeoisBourgeoisieContemporary ArtOpportunistConfigurationHedge Fund Author:Liam Gillick