The Painted Protest
Dean Kissick | Harper's Magazine | 1st December 2024
An attempt to decipher the cacophony of contemporary art. A decade ago, the art world decided it was too frivolous. Identity, social issues, and inequality should instead be its focus, along with amplifying the voices of the marginalised. Now, the appearance of an artwork is “subordinate to the theory that purports to explain it.” However, “I don’t particularly care to have my awareness raised. I like art the most when it doesn’t mean a thing, or otherwise when its beauty or strangeness transcends its subject”.