[Rumori] Illegal Art appropriated

[Carrie McLaren]

The gallery makes a percentage (40-50%? -- I can't remember) off any 
art it sells and the artist gets the rest. This is standard, whether 
you're talking about an institution like moma or a small, nonprofit 
gallery. Admission is free.

Stay Free has spent a TON of money putting on this show; the 
suggestion that anyone -- let alone some corporation -- is getting 
rich off this is ludicrous.

carrie




>okaY so, now m.o.m.a. is making bucks off of this , are any of the local
>artists..??.
>
>Naked Rabbit wrote:
>
>>  On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 02:59 AM, Steev Hise wrote:
>>
>>  > Perhaps this stuff, at least the visual art side of it, isn't as
>>  > dangerous as we like to think? Maybe once you hang "fine art"
>>  > stuff in a major gallery (these days at least, not forgetting
>>  > Warhol vs Campbell's, et al) it is de facto "safe", unlike
>>  > more mass-produced, commodity culture like CDs and books and
>>  > movies.
>>  >
>>  I used to worry about eventual calls from the Mouse about "Gimme the
>>  Mermaid" until this show.  Now I know the piece has been "canonized" by
>>  the legitimate art establishment.  It is invulnerable now!
>>
>>  I know that you lose the bad-boy art-terrorist-chic when you go "legit"
>>  like this, but for me, I never did this kind of work to be a rebel.
>>  The whole point to me is that recontextualizing and representing
>>  cultural products is a valid artistic expression, and should NOT be
>>  marginalized and criminalized.  I see the adoption of the show by
>>  SFMOMA as a step in the right direction.  I don't think "safe" is
>>  either bad, nor the issue at stake.
>
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Carrie McLaren
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