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Diego Cortez

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[Wikipedia] James Allan Curtis, known professionally as Diego Cortez, was an American filmmaker and art curator closely associated with the no wave period in New York City. Cortez was the co-founder of the Mudd Club, and he curated the influential post-punk art show New York/New Wave, which brought the then asp

Quotes by Diego Cortez

I've always been leery of comical artists because I think oftentimes they're hiding the fact that they're not that talented. For example,…

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I would say that most serious artists have a pretty complete idea of what they're going to do before they do it.

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Even after seeing so much bad art in the last few years, it still seems possible that one can be led to…

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The great achievement of Zen Buddhism, and all of its cultural expressions in painting or the tea ceremony or rock gardens, is…

Achievement

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I've always hated the word spirituality, but now I accept the word, and I think it's a useful term. It just means…

Accepting

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Museums have traditionally been places that protect the art object. But in the last 40 years, a new type of museum has…

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The church was always very adept at incorporating all the different artistic disciplines. What we call the church is actually an assemblage…

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Our recent pop-music icons, even the most radical ones, like Björk or Caetano Veloso, often have to present themselves as happy and…

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I think what happened in the last 10 or 15 years in the art market is that all the players - and…

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