Work is very very slow so here’s an early morning post.
+ David Galbraith top Ten
David Galbraith posted an article on the Top Ten things that Defined the ‘Noughties’
I really like his explanation of Damien Hirst’s For the Love of God crystal encrusted skull:
“Nothing defines the decade in more compact form than this diabolically expensive piece of shit. It’s almost impossible to think of anything more disgusting than a diamond encrusted skull, it combines the graveyard exploitation of a human skin lampshade with the ostentatious vulgarity of a gold plated toilet. It didn’t sell, so unfortunately there isn’t a single Russian gangster or Connecticut hedge fund manager to crucify for purchasing it. Instead, it belongs to them all, the people who took tainted money and unimaginatively tried to launder it, by buying taste, via a largely obsolete but prestigious medium – gallery art. Who knows, perhaps Hirst was indeed joking, in which case this was genius rather than an ironic, decade defining, atrocity.”
+ Top Ten Baltimore Art of the Decade
So many Top Ten lists as of late. I really need to work on my top 10 albums post.
HERE.
Tags: Baltimore
