Fabulous writing!! I gobbled this down. For whatever reason, the NY Mag article about Jamian came thru my Instagram feed and I could barely finish reading it. I'd rather have committed hari Kari. When I stumbled upon your writing about Jamian, the current state of the art world and the culture that worships and props people like her up, it was precisely what I needed to prevent self immolation. Thank you for you knife-like insights, brilliant words and approach to disecting this piece of our sadly seductive, unoriginal culture that continues to traffic emptiness disguised as substance, innovation and progression.
I just migrated over to this platform, and am convinced that it is the right place to be after reading your piece. Thank you for such honest and succinct appraisal of the racial mechanisms that enforce the market. I’ve been wondering why there has to be an eternal place for “white cigarette smoking babies” that gets filled as soon as their tragic death leaves the space open, and now I have more to think on.
I squealed when I saw this. The NYMag piece was so well written so as to be a proper horror story of why I felt completely disenchanted by the NY art world, vanity and evil distilled to be sure haha
The Lee "Scratch" Perry comparison made me do a spit-take. Was the writer doing as much coke as everyone involved with that "gallery"?
Fabulous writing!! I gobbled this down. For whatever reason, the NY Mag article about Jamian came thru my Instagram feed and I could barely finish reading it. I'd rather have committed hari Kari. When I stumbled upon your writing about Jamian, the current state of the art world and the culture that worships and props people like her up, it was precisely what I needed to prevent self immolation. Thank you for you knife-like insights, brilliant words and approach to disecting this piece of our sadly seductive, unoriginal culture that continues to traffic emptiness disguised as substance, innovation and progression.
Also this artist is definitely not a nepo baby- we have mutual friends and they all say she’s very humble and busted her ass
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You sound disgruntled- shouldn’t we be lifting people up? You may think what you want of her lifestyle, but you can’t deny she’s talented.
What’s wrong with being disgruntled. It’s necessary.
That part.
I just migrated over to this platform, and am convinced that it is the right place to be after reading your piece. Thank you for such honest and succinct appraisal of the racial mechanisms that enforce the market. I’ve been wondering why there has to be an eternal place for “white cigarette smoking babies” that gets filled as soon as their tragic death leaves the space open, and now I have more to think on.
I squealed when I saw this. The NYMag piece was so well written so as to be a proper horror story of why I felt completely disenchanted by the NY art world, vanity and evil distilled to be sure haha