Hello, and welcome to The Art Life for 2005. Before we get into the art world and all its exciting news and exhibitions, we need to mention a few things.
First off, the Art Life is a blog, an online web log, like a diary, kind of like a newsletter. It’s not the journal of record, it’s not here to take the place of anything, and we don’t hold our opinions above anyone else’s. You are free to read or not to read, that is your choice, and we are free to write and say what we like. Of course, we try to be accurate but sometimes we make mistakes or factual errors or perhaps go too far, and we are the first to admit it. That is the nature of the thing.
The Art Life is a semi-anonymous art collective with a career death wish. Little by little we are alienating ourselves from those who would support us, attracting the ire of those who hate us and even the occasional death threat (see below). But the thing to remember is that we are unaligned and do not have a vested interest in anything other than to glorify our own names in the pages of art history.
Another thing to remember is that The Art Life often employs what is known as “irony”, that is “the use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning; an expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning; a literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect.”
Sometimes we fail to express that irony properly so we have decided to use colour coding with irony, say, when we write something with an ironic meaning, we’ll make the text red. For example:
“But the thing to remember is that we are unaligned and do not have a vested interest in anything other than to glorify our own names in the pages of art history.”
The last thing we want to mention is that the Comments section below each post can be activated by clicking on the link. When that window pops up and you see what other Art Life readers have said, you’re on your own. We can’t take responsibility for anything that is written there except under certain circumstances: when someone is attacked, defamed or libeled; when someone uses a name other than a pseudonym or their own real name – for example singing your name “Nick Tsoutas” when you are not the director of Artspace; and when someone is gratuitously offensive. In these cases we reserve the right to edit posts, or, in extreme examples, ban readers. Don’t make us mad…
