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Hans Haacke has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort…
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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a…
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example…
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I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents…
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Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in…
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There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work…
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in…
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When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing…
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The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.
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If you look at the size of the art world in terms of the money that is being transacted compared to other…
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