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Art Talk Therapy

Need advice? Bert Rodriguez, conceptual artist, will offer "art therapy" (meaning therapy from an artist) to listeners and talk about his piece In the Beginning. . ., part of the Park Avenue Armory extension to the Whitney Biennial.

more about Bert Rodriguez
Bert Rodriguez' website


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[1]
Posted by: Grant
March 19, 2008 - 10:51AM
Brooklyn, NY

This guy is making me sick...

The Biennial was absolute garbage. If I had to look through another piece that looked like a wall frame with visually obstructing slats, I was going to puke. What nonsense...

[2]
Posted by: Taher
March 19, 2008 - 10:55AM
Croton on Hudson

Bert showed be arrested for practicing therapy with-out a license.

[3]
Posted by: kevin
March 19, 2008 - 10:58AM
park slope

How tedious! People have no ability to see art in all its' subtlety today and so the art market and art institutions have substituted these puerile little pseudo intellectual exercises. You can think about it and talk about it in lieu of actually looking and discovering beauty. It's mental masturabation. And these exercises which depend on novelty tend to a rehash of something that has already been done. I remember this same thing being done in the East Village some time back. Someone said "Everything changes but the avant garde". Or as Shakespeare said "There's nothing new under the sun". It is hovwever obviously a good career move as witnessed by the fact that this fairly inarticulate and uninteresting young artist is included in the Whitney Biennial. And being impressed by these credentials it has earned him a slot on your show. Ho hum.

[4]
Posted by: Mark
March 19, 2008 - 11:00AM
Brooklyn

Gotta agree with Laura. If one of the most important speech of our lifetime is made and only bloggers listen, did it happen? Sad.

[5]
Posted by: World's Toughest Milkman
March 19, 2008 - 11:02AM
the_C_train

Art, it's not just for breakfast anymore.....errr....uhmmmmnn...I make art, therefore errrrr....uhmmmnnn....well I'm in the biennial and urrrr not. I'm quite happy having quit an art career for delivering the nation's milk.

[6]
Posted by: chestinee
March 19, 2008 - 11:17AM
Midtown

Milkman

I suspect that there are plenty of sincere non market oriented, non groovoid artists safely underground of the crrent market.

[7]
Posted by: a z
March 19, 2008 - 11:20AM
westchester

This topic was a pretty funny contrast with the last one. These artists will be starving artists all right when their Wall Street backing dries up.

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