Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if y….

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it..

It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate the findings of perceptual psy….

An artist is not an isolated system. In order to survive he has to interact continuously with the world around him... Theoretically there are no limi….

What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtail….

Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry..

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi..

The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern..

There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 's….

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate..

If you look at the size of the art world in terms of the money that is being transacted compared to other parts of the 'consciousness industry,' it i….

I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in Ne….

A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg,.. is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for ar….

Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that..

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cult….

In order to gain some insight into the forces that elevate certain products to the level of 'works of art' it is helpful - among other investigations….

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that….

Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do..