What was it that Clark Flood recently wrote about art fairs on glasstire.com?
Oh, you must be referring to his essay in which he wrote, “For those who don’t know, art fairs are the way of the art world these days. They are as inevitable as kissing the anuses of those more powerful than you, and just as enjoyable. Like the whole world, they make a lot of sense when looked at from the point of view of the very wealthy, because art fairs, like the whole world, are entirely set up to service the very wealthy.” Or did you mean the part where he advised artists to stay home? “Your art is exhibited with all the curatorial finesse of the detergent displays at Fiesta, and with as much honor, but you’re lucky just to get product onto these supermarket shelves… Then you can enjoy watching a bunch of clueless tourists, blind art professionals, manipulative collectors, and gutless dealers walk around feeling important, dissing each other, and equating the state of their personal financial health with the state of Art Today. In the best-case scenario, they haggle over your
