http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/invisible_art_bs_art_slog This week's art podcast is about—what else?—sculpture, with Eric Fredericksen. You even get a pretty picture of the guy. And Tyler Green is calling BS on Johanna Burton's proposal (mentioned yesterday on Slog) that the difference between installation and sculpture is that one needs you, while the other doesn't. He says all art is equally needy--or at least from Henry Moore to Thomas Hirshhorn. But doesn't some art want you more than other art? Thomas Hirshhorn desperately wants you, it seems to me. Jasper Johns could care less about you. This doesn't exist? Hey, also, I want to announce: for... Copyright 2008 Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:22:37 -0800 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:19:13 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss But I didn't suggest that all art was equally needy. I said I didn't know what the flying fig that ridiculous phrase means. I created no range between Moore and Hirschhorn. The whole conversation is a gigantic waste of time -- the only reason to discuss the pseudo-thoughts of a pseudo-thinker is to expose them. Which is all I was trying to do in my post.

]]> Tyler Green http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/invisible_art_bs_art_slog#c592702 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/invisible_art_bs_art_slog#c592702 Arts Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:19:13 -0800