[(CNN) --] Ezra Pound said a long time ago that artists are the antennae of the human race, ... That they actually sense and describe aspects of the world around us that the rest of us don't see because we're so busy living in it. |
After two years of working as a consultant, I'm excited about having the chance to once again be involved with an art collection and with a professional staff and with the general public. I missed having connections with art, ideas and people. |
All six curators were invited to bring in 40 artists' names to start the bidding war, and there was very little overlap, ... Ultimately, we had to rationalize this and do a single list. |
Everybody thought the newspaper would end the discussions around the hearth, or that radio would end the newspaper, or that TV would end radio, ... Everybody always fears this and yet we always make more psychic room for all of these media. |
He spent hours and hours sifting through different sites. |
How could we not? ... The Whitney for 70 years has followed the instincts of American artists. |
If Net art is in the embryonic stage, it's all the more fascinating. |
It's a great time to be an artist, ... because a lot of the sacred cows are no longer in evidence. |
So it's fun to be on the ground floor of understanding what artists will be doing in the years to come. |
The ground is shifting radically under the pressure of newly documented claims. While there may not be a single clear solution for every claim, institutions will need to be forthright in explaining future acquisitions. |
This will be a show that challenges you. This is part of what art is meant to do. |