{"id":1492,"date":"2009-04-02T11:40:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T18:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/04\/mayonnaise-poodle-hair-broken-zippers\/"},"modified":"2009-04-02T11:42:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T18:42:34","slug":"mayonnaise-poodle-hair-broken-zippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/02\/mayonnaise-poodle-hair-broken-zippers\/","title":{"rendered":"“Mayonnaise, poodle hair, broken zippers.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The NY Observer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The Critic\u2019s Critic\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Sparrow<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I spoke to Arnold J. Foley, freelance art critic, in a Nigerian tea bar in Astoria, Queens.
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Sparrow: What are the main problems in the contemporary art world?
\nMr. Foley: To begin with, the art world in New York is entirely segregated by neighborhood. All the paintings in the Upper East Side galleries must be attractive hanging over a sofa.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care if they\u2019re by Picasso, they have to be \u201csofa-ready\u201d (that\u2019s the term I use). The art in Chelsea must impress an art professor; in fact, it has impressed an art professor. The art on the Lower East Side is scruffy\u2014not really scruffy, but faux-scruffy. The art in Williamsburg is made out of non-art stuff: mayonnaise, poodle hair, broken zippers.<\/p>\n

Sparrow: And which is your favorite art?<\/p>\n

Mr. Foley: It\u2019s not a matter of favorites. My point is just the opposite. All segregation is evil, even in art. We need the sofa-ready paintings to speak to the poodle hair sculptures, but they never do! In fact, the two genres need to mate.<\/p>\n

Sparrow: Do you have any other complaints about the art world?<\/p>\n

Mr. Foley: Another philosophical problem is \u201coutsider art.\u201d No one can settle on a name for it. Some prefer \u201cvernacular art\u201d; some go for \u201cself-taught art.\u201d Or \u201cfolk art.\u201d I like to call it True Art.<\/p>\n

[ click to read at observer.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The NY Observer The Critic\u2019s Critic\u00a0 By Sparrow I spoke to Arnold J. Foley, freelance art critic, in a Nigerian tea bar in Astoria, Queens. Sparrow: What are the main problems in the contemporary art world? Mr. Foley: To begin with, the art world in New York is entirely segregated by neighborhood. All the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}