{"id":25783,"date":"2011-01-06T20:17:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T20:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/design-critic-rick-poynor-asks-where-is-art-now\/"},"modified":"2011-01-06T20:17:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T20:17:34","slug":"design-critic-rick-poynor-asks-where-is-art-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/design-critic-rick-poynor-asks-where-is-art-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Design critic Rick Poynor asks “Where Is Art Now?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Design critic Rick Poynor asks “Where Is Art Now?”<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I\u2019m not part of the art world, but I studied art and I share some of its assumptions. I do believe the higher kind of art exists. It grips and fascinates me. There are few things I enjoy more than looking at art in museums and galleries. So all the time, like any committed gallery-goer, I\u2019m confronted by the question: why is this object I\u2019m gazing at art? And, conversely, why is something quite similar not art? Having reached that point, it\u2019s impossible to avoid even trickier questions. Am I being shown things by the art world that might not be art after all? Can a piece of work be serious art even though it isn\u2019t any good, while some other excellent piece of work fails to qualify as high art? One thing I feel confident about saying after years of looking at art is that I\u2019m not automatically prepared to take the art world\u2019s word for it, even if I conclude they are right about an artist or an art work. But how do I think I know? I\u2019ll come back to that later.” This is paragraph four of a short essay by (graphic) design critic Rick Poynor. In the essay Poynor works through some positions that Devin Monnens and I explored while he was working on his MFA. Who gets to declare some work or experience to be “art”? We came away with at least four (five?) different people\/stances\/lenses who\/which have the superpower to raise the status of something to the level of art. 1 the beholder. 2 the artist. 3 the curator… and I’m forgetting the other one (two?) at present. Poynor is a smart man, an astute observer, and his article is worth the read.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Design critic Rick Poynor asks “Where Is Art Now?” “I\u2019m not part of the art world, but I studied art and I share some of its assumptions. I do believe the higher kind of art exists. It grips and fascinates me. There are few things I enjoy more than looking at art in museums and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6HR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25783","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=25783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}