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“Taste is reinforced by what gets broadcast, and it’s reinforced by who receives those stupid awards on those horrible award shows that keep coming up over and over and over again.”2
Neil Slaven • Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa: The Story of Frank Zappa
Curators Are the New Creators. The Business Model of Good Taste | by Gaby Goldberg | Medium
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In Benjamin’s view, this opens up art to the masses in a way that has never been possible before, enabling them to escape from the clutches of tradition – a highly desirable outcome for the revolutionary-minded Marxist.
Stuart Sim • Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides Book 0)
As artists, we seek to restore our childlike perception: a more innocent state of wonder and appreciation not tethered to utility or survival. Our filter inevitably reduces Source intelligence by interpreting the data that arrives instead of letting it pass freely. As the vessel fills with these recast fragments, relationships are created with the
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Rob Giampietro • Lined & Unlined · Form-giving
Once as tidy as a Koi pond, culture now floods like the Nile. Great riches. Precious little order. This “too much” culture is a concussive, confusing culture.
Grant McCracken • The Gravity Well Effect
We are reaching the point where we have to ask not only whether works of larger significance and reach can still be created, but also whether audiences—readers, viewers, listeners—would still know how to take them in if they were.