"What I'm very upset about is the attempt……" — Hans Haacke
"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 curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust."
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Hans Haacke
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14 Quotes by Hans Haacke
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such…
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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we…
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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…
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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…
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I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip…
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Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate…
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There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others.…
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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…
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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…
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If you look at the size of the art world in terms of the money that is being transacted compared…
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It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material…
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