British artist-writer, author of "White Spirit", "The Naked Spur" and "How to Start a Dissident Art Movement". View art at https://xitter.cf/t.co/Tuxve1Pjbd
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Thank you to all of my new followers for liking and sharing my recent art posts. For anyone new to me, I am an artist, critic and author. My income comes from art and writing. If you appreciate what I do and would like to support me, below are some ways you can do that. (1/5)
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Generative AI made digital perfection free, which in turn made it worthless. The next avant-garde belongs to the friction of human hands. @lukesgilfedder @AdamsArtist
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Traditionalist without being anachronistic, these two books by @AdamsArtist will inoculate the reader from the dehumanising ideology that dominates the humanities and the arts scene today. Published by @imperiumpress1.
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"White Spirit" is a novel about an art student in London in the 1990s. Beyond being a documentation of what happened, it is an examination of the lies I was sold (knowingly and unknowingly) by the system, by my colleagues and by myself.
As you read the book, you'll see all the beautiful traps we set for ourselves, as creators and professionals. I'm sure you'll recognise some of those. The lies you tell yourself are the worst because they are the most convincing and the hardest to escape.
Dissenters (including me) spend a lot of time decrying the state of the system. It is a lot harder to look into yourself and discover that most of your plight is of your own making.
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Sounds like a fascinating read
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"White Spirit" is a novel about an art student in London in the 1990s. Beyond being a documentation of what happened, it is an examination of the lies I was sold (knowingly and unknowingly) by the system, by my colleagues and by myself.
As you read the book, you'll see all the beautiful traps we set for ourselves, as creators and professionals. I'm sure you'll recognise some of those. The lies you tell yourself are the worst because they are the most convincing and the hardest to escape.
Dissenters (including me) spend a lot of time decrying the state of the system. It is a lot harder to look into yourself and discover that most of your plight is of your own making.
"White Spirit" is a novel about an art student in London in the 1990s. Beyond being a documentation of what happened, it is an examination of the lies I was sold (knowingly and unknowingly) by the system, by my colleagues and by myself.
As you read the book, you'll see all the beautiful traps we set for ourselves, as creators and professionals. I'm sure you'll recognise some of those. The lies you tell yourself are the worst because they are the most convincing and the hardest to escape.
Dissenters (including me) spend a lot of time decrying the state of the system. It is a lot harder to look into yourself and discover that most of your plight is of your own making.
Thanks to @P4Freedom for their nomination. I hope some of the speeches, interviews and books I've worked on have allowed creators to be braver and more independent. If they have then I've done what I set out to do.
PASSION FOR FREEDOM ARTIST OF THE MONTH | ALEXANDER ADAMS
What does it mean to be an independent artist in an art world that has boundaries of its own?
This month, Passion for Freedom nominates @AdamsArtist , a British artist, writer, critic and poet, as our Artist of the Month
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An art-theatre stream where @AdamsArtist and myself joined the New Pantheon channel for a discussion about John Logan's play 'Red' about Mark Rothko and his Seagram murals.
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There is an excerpt from White Spirit in the Solstice mag. Grab a copy to check it out.
If you wonder about today's art, consider these two novels. Written from the inside, they show how students are encouraged to pursue bizarre experiments to please tutors and chase critical acclaim. They explore how personal weaknesses drive artists into the arms of the art world. If you want to understand the state of art, I recommend this pair of novels.
If you wonder about today's art, consider these two novels. Written from the inside, they show how students are encouraged to pursue bizarre experiments to please tutors and chase critical acclaim. They explore how personal weaknesses drive artists into the arms of the art world. If you want to understand the state of art, I recommend this pair of novels.
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"BBC removes 11 Mitchell and Webb comedy sketches from iPlayer"
Aside from memory-holing recent culture, moves like this disrupt cultural transmission at large. For example, there exists a comic cycle: plenty of Mitchell and Webb sketches are reanimations of earlier comedy duos' ideas. That relationship with the past is deemed a priori "problematic".
The cuts prevent us from understanding that our predecessors (or we) found blackface (in this example) funny — that there is a continuity and that we are not different people at the core.
We must, instead, find humour in our sterile, joyless present. A tall order when we cannot believe that even people happier than us ever laughed.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6jd…
Thoughtful discussion about the plight of regional museums and what the future might hold for them. Give it a watch!
Live in 40 - @Art_Deano and I look at the state of the modern museum. What is their purpose, what are their problems.
How England’s Art Collections are Marginalised
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Watch it!
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Solstice magazine is now for sale. If you wish to read yours truly alongside a whole host of other artists and critics, while also supporting a little arts magazine, do consider purchasing a copy below:
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Another brilliant art-driven episode of Content Minded is here. @AdamsArtist comes on the show again to talk many things including contemporary art, the legacy of David Hockney, trads vs. eroticism and his recent critique of Atelier Missor and much more, link below👇
A really fine artist, who combines the best of Japanese printmaking with some distinctively Western graphics. Read my review of Shinsui in this article: alexanderadamsart.wordpress.…
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People have asked me which is the best book for them to start with. I'd say "White Spirit". Chronologically and tonally it is an easier place to start.
