This week's "New Yorker" is more than worth it for any art fanatics- both the write-up on Banksy and on Chris Burden are interesting (Art in America did a piece on Banksy this past year as well).
The only confusion I had was with the article on Banksy which made reference to his groundbreaking work with getting art out of the hands of the galleries and the so-called establishment. Wasn't Robert Smithson (and Walter de Maria) doing this like 30 years ago (along with other artists)?
Besides. wasn't Smithson's pediatrician William Carlos Williams?
And isn't "This is Just to Say," arguably one of the best poems of the 20th Century?
I did like the fact that it indicates that Banksy's name is a direct reference to cash money. Maybe the Cash Money Millionaires will make him an honorary member? Maybe Lloyd Banks and the G-Unit will start a beef over naming rights? Maybe Banksy will next change his name to "Chingy," or even "Cha-ching"?
Good food for thought though-and good write ups. I like the line by Peter Schjeldahl "a good efficiency test of where you stand on contemporary art is whether you are persuded, or persuadable, that Chris Burden is a good artist." True.
My favorite Burden "Doorway to Heaven," is pictured above.
And the Banksy piece was interesting to my own work right now- as his use of pop-culture and cut-outs is very different from my approach (I still love the traditional silence of a painting), but the act of cutting out objects and reconsidering their posture or significance is certainly in my newest works. He definitely has some great stuff going on.
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