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So he persuaded unpaid volunteers to do the work he was being paid to do?
Nobody has a problem with this?
> I am very much in that direction myself; I found it, for example, almost shameful to turn on paid subscriptions on my blog. Almost.
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I have found that folks like Jensen, Elon, Jobs, etc answer their emails in 5-10 min. You be the judge.
They have EA’s that can go through their inboxes for them and highlight what actually needs a response. Hell they probably draft responses for them too
> I am very much in that direction myself; I found it, for example, almost shameful to turn on paid subscriptions on my blog. Almost.
Thanks for sharing. Henrik Karlsson is one of my favourite writers on the internet at the moment. His other piece called "Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process" [1] left such a big impression on me and I return to it frequently, highly recommend. 1: https://web.archive.org/web/20240816150009/https://www.henri...
If you love his content please consider chipping in to his substack to help keep these great pieces coming out instead of linking the archive. It’s why he was working at the gallery in the first place instead of writing full time.
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> There were plenty of people who we now recognise as “great artist” who absolutely could not figure out where the “incentive vectors align”. Thus they lived in abject poverty, or needed to support themselves from something other than their art. I don't think this is particularly true anymore. Most of the canonical artists of the past century were successful during their lifetimes. The ones who weren't either died tr…
I agree with this. I'd be curious if you have any hypothesis about why exactly that is? Personally, I can think of three possible reasons but I'm not convinced by any of them: 1. It's became harder to distinguish quality. Artist training has been streamlined, so technical excellence (which is easier to evaluate) isn't novel anymore. So that means determining quality of art now depends on more difficult to evaluate cr…
As for #1, I think basic art education may be streamlined, but art education in general not necessarily as developed as it was in the past. Sfumato, for example, is a technique that would be difficult to learn in an art school due to how long it takes oil to dry, but straightforward in a master apprentice relationship. Bernini grew up as the son of a marble sculptor when and where that was considered the highest form of art, so it's unlikely that anyone born today could be raised breathing marble dust like how he was.
I think that photography and digital technology killed the importance of technique more than anything else. Even with realist painting, having photographic references allows you to "cheat" your way into good enough results with unrefined skills to the extent that only painting nerds care about the difference, it makes more sense to focus on other things, which like you said are more difficult to evaluate.
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In this specific case we know who bought it Justin Sun. He's a Hong Kong based cyrptocurrency investor who ate it. So it seems like in this case it was more about getting some press, and probably a bit of distraction against some of the allegations against him.
Nope he didn’t eat it. He got a digital token with instructions on how to tape his own banana to the wall. Before someone thinks I’m not serious - I am. That was out in the news today.
- that buyer didn’t get a real banana. Should have a lifetime supply for that price!
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- Robert Ryman was exhibited in the Orangerie Museum and compared to Monet (in the equivalent sense).
The bulk of Ryman’s art is a plain white canvas. Not a single dot. Not even a frame. Textured drywall painted with bargain white paint is far more interesting…
My drywall contractor should be a billionaire…
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This is a reflexion I made to a friend yesterday: the banana doesn't improve the state of art over Duchamp's Fountain. The real artist, in this case, is the guy who paid 6 millions to eat the banana !
The guy that bought it is not an artist, he was just trying to distract from some good-old-fashioned corruption: https://popular.info/p/a-chinese-national-charged-with-fraud Based on the coverage of his purchase it seems like he succeeded.