“I think when people struggle with the problem of trying to understand the art world as an idea, they misunderstand it. They think it's a world of visionaries or opportunists. But it also includes people who want to take part in this cultural exercise but don't have the required stuff, they don't have the ideas or the production.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantTryingArtIdeasProblemStuffStruggleExerciseProductionsVisionariesArt WorldOpportunist 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