"If there is one thing that cannot be guaranteed to be financially rock solid, this is an art based on negation. The most exposed aspects of contemporary rejectionism are the most rudimentary. The shelf life of Jeff Koons’s jocular objects, Donald Judd’s manufactured elements or Jean-Michel Basquiat’s cartoons is unlikely to be the longest. The day one of the pundits discovers that the king has no clothes on, all the glib talk of marketing teams telling investors how savvy they are will not prevent tens of millions of dollars from melting like butter in the sun." --
Special Report: Contemporary Art
Buyers Wonder, Will Art Appreciate Over Time?
By SOUREN MELIKIAN
Published: February 24, 2011
Read in Full:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/arts/25iht-rartsouren25.html?_r=4&pagewanted=2
"From that sound financial advice Souren proceeds to giving the best definition to what is now pushed on us as contemporary art – it is“contemporary rejectionism” bravo NYT!!!!! It’s a really great term all the way around that really shall be adopted by the institutions as it finally defines what it is that they so fervently, adamantly and narrowly represent!" ---Alexey Steele's Response
Read in Full:
http://novorealism.blogspot.com/2011/02/nyt-is-calling-into-question-entire.html
Special Report: Contemporary Art
Buyers Wonder, Will Art Appreciate Over Time?
By SOUREN MELIKIAN
Published: February 24, 2011
Read in Full:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/arts/25iht-rartsouren25.html?_r=4&pagewanted=2
"From that sound financial advice Souren proceeds to giving the best definition to what is now pushed on us as contemporary art – it is“contemporary rejectionism” bravo NYT!!!!! It’s a really great term all the way around that really shall be adopted by the institutions as it finally defines what it is that they so fervently, adamantly and narrowly represent!" ---Alexey Steele's Response
Read in Full:
http://novorealism.blogspot.com/2011/02/nyt-is-calling-into-question-entire.html
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