Re: art world in crisis!
On Jan 30, 2007, at 4:20 PM, bitch@pulpculture.org wrote:
Chuck mentions the 80s. Didn’t the same crap go down then with the
whole Wall St. phenom?
My memory is even more than today. Art, at least in NYC, was all over
the popular culture. Schnabel and all those other assholes were
extremely visible. My first wife knew a woman who painted his stuff
early in the morning before she went to her day job.
One of the early issues of The New Criterion - which was at once
furiously Reaganite and high-culture snob, a real juggling act if
there ever was one - had an ad for something called The Arbitrage
Gallery. I thought that was pretty funny.
Doug