Contemporary Art

Meeting and talking to

Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession. Ernest West Basden

Contemporary art challenges us..

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom. Eli Broad

Somewhere a portion of

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be. Donald Judd

I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the present, or the half century in between. And why not? I’m deeply underwhelmed by most contemporary art, literature, music, films, TV, the heinous little phones, money talk, real estate talk, all that stuff. … Read more

I have a passion

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open. Delphine Arnault

I have a passion

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. Delphine Arnault

It’s easy to say

It’s easy to say This year in art sucked. After all, about 85 percent of all shows of contemporary art are bad. But 85 percent of all art made in the Renaissance was bad. David Edelstein

The museum in D.C.

The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum – the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas the Studio Museum is really a contemporary art museum that happens to be about the diaspora and a particular body of contemporary artists ignored by the mainstream. The Studio Museum has championed that … Read more

Populism in contemporary art

Populism in contemporary art can become a dirty word. There is this notion that to not be understood is a reflection of depth. I’m sure this is true in some cases, but on the whole I can’t accept this as a vision of art. There’s something so cynical about assuming your audience is unintelligent or … Read more

I mean, people listen

I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don’t like contemporary art. Damien Hirst