“I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice for which vulgar is not even close to the word. Yes, I like Schumann's Carnaval, but I'm damned if I know why anybody thinks the paintings of Paul Klee profit from being viewed with Carnaval playing in the background.” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldAmericaPracticePaintingProfitBackgroundsVulgarGallerySchumann Author:Terry Teachout
“Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?” UseCertainLiteratureLibertyCasesSubjectsPaintingPhotographyCapableAspectProfitPainterDomainLiberatingAnecdotes Author:Pablo Picasso
“We had lead emitted in gasoline and in paint, painting generations of housing for an entire century, practically, before it was regulated. That's what I'm talking about, is that we have a regulatory system that is biased to protect profit and not to protect people. We need a much more precautionary and proactive regulatory system that is not influenced by the revolving door.” PeopleNeedsTalkingGenerationsDoorsCenturyPaintingProtectPaintProfitHousingBiasedGasolineProactiveRevolvingRevolving Doors Author:Jill Stein