Last week I walked into a gallery filled with polka dots and whimsical sculptures. The works made me smile but it was the wall text that made me laugh out loud. Without any irony whatsoever they claimed the show was “urgent today”.
Every time I see the word urgent used to describe artworks I die a little inside. Galleries, PR teams and even critics are a…
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