Air guitar
by Dave Hickey · first published 1997
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On of my favorite essays on music is by an art critic/dealer named Dave Hickey. He wrote a collection of essays called Air Guitar, which is worth picking up even if (like me) you're not interested in art dealing or art criticism. He's a very lucid writer about the value of art for life. Anyway, in the chapter "The Delicacy of…
on “Why most people don't like jazz” ↗…its own staying power, or just because the MoMA told us that we ought to remember it." Isn't that the case with all contemporary art acquisitions, though? I'm reminded of this quote by Dave Hickey from Air Guitar: "Since there is no absolute authority in the art world, or in the economic world either, we may presume that for every opinion, there is a contrary one. Thus, the social value of a work of art, or an…
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