Letters to the Red Crayola V, 2000-2012
| Letters to the Red Crayola V, 2000-2012 | |
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| Project |  Letters to the Red Krayola
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| Year | 2012 |
| Dimensions | 79.2 × 83.5 cm[1] |
| Materials | Ink, acrylic, collage and mixed media on paper |
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Dear M, The audience member fell for it, informing us that a new transitional type had emerged in the last 20 years, and that this emergence signifies a reaching down of academic rigour towards the artist. What they meant, amongst other things, was that the curator represents a cultural development where there is mediation between the academic world and the increasingly dispensable artist. They were clearly unaware of the material interests that have been — and continue to be — served by this development. In fact, it represents a further growth — as well as a condition of growth — of the corporate tumour that takes the form of harmless spectacles and their stable descriptions. Such beings as these are the weightless little Fausts of corporate liberality who arrange the scenery of the Gesamkunstverk. And if that weren't dispiriting enough, there's virtually no worthwhile distinction to be made between one curatorial performance and another. As the exemplars of Institutional Critique have been happily transformed into institutional jewelry, so they must lie on a tomb — a sort of bed — and be covered quietly by the sorrows and snows of winter.