I first heard of Ken Lansing in 2002 at the annual convention of the National Art Education Association. In the Q&A of a session entitled “Educating the Museum Educator,” I suggested that not everything displayed in art museums nowadays truly qualifies as art. Following the session, I was approached by a colleague who introduced himself […]
abstract art, anti-art, definition of art, Joseph Beuys, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Manuel Barkan Memorial Award, Mira Kallio-Tavin, Morris Weitz, National Art Education Association, Paul Duncum, posthumanism, relativismThe phenomenon of fake news is on everyone’s lips in the realm of politics these days, but the equivalent of fake art in the contemporary artworld has yet to be adequately reckoned with. Google the term and you’ll find ample news of forgeries—work imitating that by famous artists and passed off as actually by them. […]
anti-art, Combines, Erased de Kooning Drawing, fake art, fake news, Leah Dickerman, MoMA, Monogram, Rauschenberg
