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i dont care about anymore, i cant get the new momus album, the hal foster article on richard hamilton flummoxes me, i like pretty pictures and jokey shit rather then the theory heavy, stark work i love, i havent been able to pick through october, i have stopped buying most art and design magazines.

im really really bored.
is it art or am i stupid.

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i like pretty pictures better than art anyway

― ron (ron), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

now it is time when we danz

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

pretty pictures still = art

redefine art, and you'll be happy

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

is it art or am i stupid.

Worse. You're bored. Maybe you'll be better tomorrow.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:38 (twenty-two years ago)

you have had a moment of clarity. don't worry, it will pass.

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Most contemporary art is very boring. But those Venice Bienalle parties rock the lagoon!

― Ex-Tennis Star, Friday, 9 May 2003 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

art is only good if a)it makes you laugh or b)you want to get inside it.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 9 May 2003 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

art should now shock. why can't it be just about pretty pictures?

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 9 May 2003 06:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The worst thing that art can do is bore you.

Probably because I hate being bored more than anything else on earth.

What did my mum used to say when I said "I'm BORED!!!" ??? She would say "Paint a picture, read a book."

― kate, Friday, 9 May 2003 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm off to the saatchi today.
and maybe the tate to see that wrestling installation.
boring ? hope not, but who knows.

― piscesboy, Friday, 9 May 2003 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)

The opposite of love is not hate, it's disinterest. Hating art (or whatever it is that you love) is occasionally neccessary. But being bored with it indicates a deeper malaise.

You know that quote - "when a man is bored of London, he is bored of life itself". I think it really applies to anything that you really love. When a man is bored of art, he is bored of life itself. Is the disatisfaction you are feeling a disatisfaction with art, or with life? Art is a reflection of life, and your attitudes towards art are a reflection of your attitudes towards life.

― kate, Friday, 9 May 2003 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

art is life
music is life
life is people

and boredom is lethal, it's been my biggest enemy thru life.

― Jan Geerinck (jahsonic), Friday, 9 May 2003 08:48 (twenty-two years ago)

right right, of course: heavy theory is so much FUN!! and rewarding!

― oops (Oops), Friday, 9 May 2003 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

if it isn't art then I already like it.

― cage-bot (jdesouza), Friday, 9 May 2003 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)

boredom is under-rated

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 9 May 2003 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)

You're probably just burned out on it and maybe depressed. I've felt the same way about music from time to time. Give yourself a break from art - the interest will come back.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 9 May 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I must be one hell of an artist, then.

― hstencil, Friday, 9 May 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

anthony what do you think of Julian LaVerdiere? i just read an article about him and i was stunned at not being bored by the words that came out of his mouth.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.interestingideas.com/ii/pix/nanart3.gif

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

CLASSIC

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I never had any complaints

― erik, Friday, 9 May 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

'what's so great about the barrier reef?
what's so fine about art?
what's so good about a good times band
when you're working on a broken, working on a broken man.'

sorry, music in the car this morning. made me think of yr thread ant.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think art's boring because today I took a detour on the way back to the office in order to have another look at Bill Viola's "Five Angels for the Millennium" in the Tate Modern. It's not as great as it was when it was installed in the very dark and an L-shaped room but it's still completely thrilling.

I wouldn't normally tell you this but I wished to enrage Tracer Hand, whose Viola-hatred betrays him.

I think art's boring because yesterday I took a detour on the way back to the office from a meeting to go and see then entrants for this year's Jerwood Painting Prize. Painting! In this day and age! I mean, good old John Hoyland and everything, but yawn-o!

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

anthony & tadzio piss art

http://members.rott.chello.nl/e.visser25/Anthony1.jpg

ridicule is nothing to be scared of

― erik, Friday, 9 May 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Erik you are brilliant.

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 10 May 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

When I used to say I was bored my mother always told me 'A bored person is a boring person!'

I think that's why I took up slapping bumperstickers on synthesizers

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 10 May 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that what you do for a living?

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Saturday, 10 May 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

We were never being boring
http://perso.club-internet.fr/lmdp/petshopboys/images/very.jpg
cause we're never feeling bored

― erik, Sunday, 11 May 2003 06:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Since Neil Tennant is there, let's remember something he said in an interview once. It's important to hate pop music to make great pop music.

It's important that people be bored by art. That's what keeps art interesting.

You go to a thrift store. 90% of the clothes there are horrible and manky. But if you persist, you just know that there's one garment somewhere which is going to change your life.

You need to be bored with sex (those long stretches of boredom between orgasm and the next tingle) to get interested in sex again. Oh wow, this!

Art is junk-treasure you can ransack for ideas-pleasure. But pleasure can never be guaranteed.

Last night I went to five gallery openings in Kreuzberg and saw only boring work. Then I came home, went online, and read an essay about 80s conceptual pop band Sudden Sway and got extremely excited, immediately planning to make their career into a West End musical.

Who knows from which direction the tiger of excitement will pounce out at your boredom, tearing it to pieces? All we can say is that it probably will happen.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 11 May 2003 07:41 (twenty-two years ago)

let me ask this question-
i am excited lately by what i used to dismiss as illustration and design, am i giving up on high to wallow in the low?

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 11 May 2003 07:58 (twenty-two years ago)

(anthony, sorry i logged off suddenly!)

― nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 11 May 2003 07:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I guessed you were already past this high/low thing.

http://www.staffars.se/katalog/bilder/00871.jpg

Who knows from which direction the tiger of excitement will pounce out at your boredom

― erik, Sunday, 11 May 2003 08:31 (twenty-two years ago)

haha
i so wish i was.
erik,hug me

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 11 May 2003 08:41 (twenty-two years ago)

You need to be bored with sex (those long stretches of boredom between orgasm and the next tingle) to get interested in sex again. Oh wow, this!

Does this mean women can't appreciate sex as much as men? OR ART?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 May 2003 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Since Neil Tennant is there, let's remember something he said in an interview once. It's important to hate pop music to make great pop music.

He expounded on this in a great essay for Details in 1992 and one day I will transcribe it if it hasn't been already.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 May 2003 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

yo, fuck art lets fuck.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

pretty pictures + jokey shit >>>> theory-heavy anything

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

If art bores you, you're not making a deep enough connection with it.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/robinson/Images/robinson6-19-24.jpg

― turner (turner), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Vulture in tha Mutha Fuckin Stuuudio!

― turner (turner), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 05:07 (twenty-one years ago)

A N EAGLE LOOKD AT MY TITS WHEN SHE WAS AT WORK. AND THEN POOF!! THEY WERE MINE!!!

― KARL SMUMFY, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

WHAT-EVERRRR!!!!

― turner (turner), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.artnet.com/magazine/news/robinson/Images/robinson11-20-6s.jpg

― turner (turner), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

thats one of my favourites

― anthony, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 05:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.hennesseyingalls.com/images/covers/0810991888.jpg

― turner (turner), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

Andrew O'Hehir chimes in at length (and updates those who came in late) on the Kois-Dargis-Scott NY Times debate about "boring" (or "vegetables") cinema:

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2011/06/07/in_praise_of_boredom

The boredom of the Hollywood studio system produced Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, George Lucas and Brian De Palma (and, boy, talk about mixed results).

― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:52 (fourteen years ago)

Last night I went to five gallery openings in Kreuzberg and saw only boring work.

#fml

― oppet, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:59 (fourteen years ago)

This week's Newsweek has a column on some exciting young fresh new rising artists, you know, like Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons.

― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 22:31 (fourteen years ago)

love the nancy - best art there is
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/Nancyernie6560.jpg

― Latham Green, Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:50 (fourteen years ago)

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