Comments on: Art Week at last: read it and weep

By: Frrrrriday Rrrrround-up! | communicatrix

Frrrrriday Rrrrround-up! | communicatrix — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:40:31 +0000

[...] you don’t think a piece about sexism in art can be wildly entertaining AND illuminating AND thought-provoking, you’re not reading enough [...]

By: Frumious B

Frumious B — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:17:26 +0000

“Hey FrumiousB, can you enlarge on this statement?”

Hey Jill: You did so yourself a few posts later! Cheers.

By: RK

RK — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:10:50 +0000

That painting is quite marvelous. Looks just like you.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:51:41 +0000

There’s more pornography on DA than there is art. I actually confronted one of these dudes before – it caused a whole convoy of them to attack my photography page with accusations of “trying to kill freedom of speech”

By: Jezebella

Jezebella — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:31:35 +0000

You know, y’all, there ARE museums where there ain’t no pictures of naked ladies on the wall. I work in one of them. Hell, fully 40% of the works on display are non-representational (NA baskets & a decorative arts gallery). Museum workers spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to make museums less intimidating and less elitist. I mean, a LOT. If you haven’t been to a museum since grammar school, try again. You’ll find attitudes have changed in most of them since you were a kid, partly because you’re an adult now and less likely to lick something if you’re not supervised, but also because most museums are trying really hard to be accessible to all.

By: Antoinette Niebieszczanski

Antoinette Niebieszczanski — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:18:17 +0000

The niecely portrait is quite fetching. The turquoise frame sets it off to perfection. And I smell a motif. Wasn’t the blametariat treated to a video of the portrait’s subject sporting a turquoise cowboy hat?

Your sibling is far more hospitable than mine. Mine would passive-aggressively (and most pointedly) not proffer any sort of edible (or drinkable, for that matter) if I were to show up at mealtime without a specific invite.

By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:44:31 +0000

there are people who never desire a sandwich but eat them anyway, for fuel

Me! That’s me! I never desire a sandwich but eat them anyway, mostly when I drop by unannounced to mooch a free lunch off my sibling Tidy, which I should know better than to do, because she always gives me a goddam cheese sandwich, undoubtedly because she knows I don’t like sandwiches and wants me to stop mooching free lunches offa her.

Although, the reason I eat the sandwich is that I do desire not to be hungry.

By: The (artless) future lies ahead « I Blame The Patriarchy

The (artless) future lies ahead « I Blame The Patriarchy — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:02:56 +0000

[...] this mumbled off-hand remark I made on the last Art Week post: Like everything else, all art proceeds from the auspices of patriarchy, and the vast majority of [...]

By: Saphire

Saphire — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:55:56 +0000

Haha what the hell is a quilt? I like art museums, but just like with any form of escapism, you get slapped round the face by the patriarchy; women can’t escape! The P is in art especially as a good medium able to ascribe value.

As to its relevancy in a post- patriarchal society, I agree with someone else upthread (yttik?). Not attacking posh people, but everything about Art is hierarchical. I like the admiration of truth n’ beauty itself, but elitism is always present and I’m too scarred by the patriarchy to search for any of that. I’m tentative about going to the art museum. Maybe I need to toughen up, or maybe I just don’t like being reminded how shit I am as a human being in most Art and literature. Going to an art museum is like most things in life – stick to looking at things with no women at all and no representation of us; or look at where women are represented exclusively as ‘things’.

By: Comrade Svilova

Comrade Svilova — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:25:52 +0000

Anecdata, somewhat related to the situation with ceramics: my Nigel is in lampworking and observes how there are more women than men in the field, but the women tend to make beads and jewelry and are often ghettoized as “crafters” while the men tend to make giant sculptures — or simply large marbles (big balls of glass, geddit?) — and are considered “artists.”

The category of “Art” as something better than other forms of expression must go. Once every tactile, graphic, mediated expression of ideas is considered art we can actually discuss what makes certain kinds of art better than others and by what criteria art can be judged. Otherwise people can veil their racism, classism, and misogyny under excuses for why certain forms of expression are “not art” just because they tend to be more associated with marginalized groups.