Comments on: Ask a Curator: What’s Your Motivation? http://lacma.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/ask-a-curator-what%e2%80%99s-your-motivation/ Mon, 20 May 2013 19:02:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Donald Frazell http://lacma.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/ask-a-curator-what%e2%80%99s-your-motivation/#comment-793 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:18:52 +0000 http://lacma.wordpress.com/?p=4351#comment-793 Congratulations LACMA! It looks like you made a good hire, as I see on CultureMonmster you hired a new head of photography and drawing depts. Ms Savesen comes from a program with extremely strong fundmentals, something needed in our new age of responsibility, after our age of excess and meism. There is no freedom without responsibility, and being around archives of those such as Weston and Adams, and an excellent current show of Mapplethorpes shows great knowledge and feel for art of the camera.

I dont mind a contemporary show now and then but must also have the best of the past to measure the new against, to see if it Feels the same in passion and depth. Nothing comes from nothing and the news generations ahve ignored teh apst in the arrogance of being superior Egged on the the art market always looking for the cool new thing to speculate in, where art became a commodity. And artistes the flavor of the month, that soon melted into a sugary mess of all empty calories, no nutrition..

f64 is OUR contribution to world culture, as large as the film insdustry which does have the resources to take care of its own, unlike photography. lets not ignore our past, so we can build on it for a evolving and true visioned future. NOT the self absorbed babblings of babes we have been inundated with from the art academies. Smug and pampered and told they were the best all their lives, unable to take reality, and so apart form it, as the glare of life wilts their shallow ideas and egos.

It is time to put aside childish things
The stakes are too high for waste and decadence now
art collegia delenda est

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