'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era ' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane provides moments of buzzy fun but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters it may be the whitest straightest most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.
Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist in love with art smitten with art history. You're also a woman with almost no mentors to look to art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
I think art education especially in this country which government pretty much ignores is so important for young people.
In the practical art of war the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
I've never really had a hobby unless you count art which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.
The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs the process will go on the organization will go on the growth will go on.
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks we must participate in the political struggle.