NYMag has a nice write up about the new Younger Than Jesus exhibit which highlights a bunch of young–but relatively not-young–artists who have yet to out live Jesus. That really actually isn’t interesting, but the article it’s self does have a few high points, namely:
In the last years of the boom, numerous artists came to the fore who have their aesthetic heads up the aesthetic asses of Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol, Richard Prince, Cady Noland, and Christopher Wool. They make punkish black-and-white art and ad hoc arrangements of disheveled stuff, architectural fragments, and Xeroxed photos. This art deals in received ideas about appropriation, conceptualism, and institutional critique. It’s a cool school, admired by jargon-wielding academics who write barely readable rhetoric explaining why looking at next to nothing is good for you. Many of these artists have sold a lot of work, and most will be part of a lost generation. They thought they were playing the system; it turned out that they were themselves being played.
Finish it up here. Quickly.
The Generational; Younger Than Jesus
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