What should war art be now - is there any/ Strictly speaking, the Iraqi has been dragging on since Bush seniors administration, 1991, Kuwait, Gold, and stopping just short of Baghdad. One of the first MARSBAR shows I was in (SUBSTANCE ABUSE being the first) was SCUDS AND FRIENDLY FIRE, where we as foolish artists safe at home created with slight irony, but without disdain, not nihilism but safe in the thought that peace is always less costly over the long run than war, and we personally would not profit.
THUS, more punk versus negations and nihilism.
Actually, we're just cheap. I tend to blame it all on conservative governments, but expensive is in. For quite a while my great amusement in life was the ARTFORUM message board (good message boards are few and far between.) But, they threw us all off and now just use it to make irregular postings, while all the listed action is art fairs and the Venice biennial, no more new york and gritty or egalitarian. I have been negated: no more new york, no more marsbar (a free show in new york, more or less) no more cbgbs, just me in maine on the Internet
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