{"id":11454,"date":"2015-10-07T17:52:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T17:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/yet-perhaps-worse-than-art-created-by-committee-2\/"},"modified":"2015-10-07T17:52:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T17:52:02","slug":"yet-perhaps-worse-than-art-created-by-committee-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/yet-perhaps-worse-than-art-created-by-committee-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Yet perhaps worse than art created by committee, Varoufakis said, are attempts to appropriate it by bureaucrats and big businesses. \u201cArt must not be anodyne, culture cannot be decorative,\u201d he said, and artists \u201cshould be feared by the powerful in our society; if you are not, you are not doing your job properly\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a wry aside, Varoufakis even knocked \u201cforums in which the stars are the postmodernist curators inviting economists to give a lecture to artists\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/news\/news\/159777\/#\">Artists should be \u2018feared by the powerful\u2019, says former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a related article, Greece\u2019s  (now former)\u00a0finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to speak at sixth Moscow Biennale<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet perhaps worse than art created by committee, Varoufakis said, are attempts to appropriate it by bureaucrats and big businesses. \u201cArt must not be anodyne, culture cannot be decorative,\u201d he said, and artists \u201cshould be feared by the powerful in our society; if you are not, you are not doing your job properly\u201d. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[101,418,358,417],"class_list":["post-11454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","tag-art","tag-artfear","tag-culture","tag-power","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2YK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}